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CLIMATE. 



JHAPTER I. 



OF THE FJ/TNKSS OF THE CLIMATE OF THE 

 UNITED STATES FOR THE CULTIVATION 

 OF THE APPLE. 



It has long been the opinion of accurate judges, that 

 the middle States possess a climate eminently favour- 

 able to the production of the finer liquor and table ap- 

 ples : it will probably be found, that the Mohawk river 

 in New- York, and the James river in Virginia, are 

 the limits of tha t district of country which produces 

 apples of the due degree of richness and flavour for 

 both purposes. II; will not be denied, that apples grow 

 well in the interior and elevated parts of the southern 

 States, as well a; s in warm and favourable exposures 

 in the northern aiud eastern States ; but it is not recol- 

 lected, that any one variety of general reputation has 

 been produced, beyond the limits here assigned for the 

 fine apple country ; That exquisite flavour for which 

 the Newton Pipp in ; and Esopus Spitzenberg, are so 



