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point. In such localities, an eastern and southern expos- 

 ure, and low grounds, are to be avoided. 



John J. Thomas, in his Fruit Culturist, states that, "In 

 the valley of the Coshocton, which is flanked by hills five 

 hundred feet high, peach-trees have been completely killed 

 to the ground, but on one of the neighboring hills, five 

 hundred feet above, and probably twelve hundred feet 

 above the level of the sea, an orchard, planted in good soil, 

 yields regular crops. In the town of Spencer, Tioga 

 County, near the head of Cayuga Inlet, peaches have with- 

 stood the climate and done well at an elevation of seven 

 hundred feet above Cayuga Lake." Lawrence Young, Esq. , 

 Chairman of the Kentucky Fruit Committee, reported to 

 the Pomological Convention at Cincinnati, in 1850, the 

 case of an orchard in that State, lying within the peach 

 district, occupying the slopes of hills of no great hight, 

 inclining gently toward a river, distant only a few hundred 

 yards. Its success was that common to a fickle, western 

 climate a fruit year and a failure, or perhaps two years 

 of productiveness and three of disappointment in every 

 five. 



Within five miles of this orchard, however, is located 

 a hill six hundred feet high, upon which the peach crop 

 has not failed since he first knew it. Numerous other in- 

 stances are quoted and the particulars given with great 

 accuracy, showing the effects of even very slight eleva- 

 tions. 



Among others, is an instance of the Heath Peach bear- 

 ing a full crop in one part of an orchard, whilst in another 

 part, thirty feet lower, the same variety bore not a single 

 fruit. Multitudes of such cases might be collected in all 

 parts of the country where the climate is variable, because 

 in such situations vegetation is earlier excited than in those 

 more elevated and colder, and frosts always fall more 

 heavily on low than on high grounds. Every one who 

 has paid the slightest attention to the action of frost on 

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