FRUIT CULTURE. 



CHAPTER I. 



METEOROLOGICAL AGENTS. 



ALTITUDE ASPECT OR EXPOSURE CONTIGUOUS BODIES OF WATER 



NATURE OF STORMS CLIMATE OF EASTERN AND TVESTERN DISTRICTS 



COMPARED — SNOW STORMS — SEVERE WIND — STAGNANT AIR — AQUE- 

 OUS VAPOR HEAT LIGHT THE LIMITS OF THE VINE TABLES 



COLD — ELECTRICITY — DIFFERENT EXPOSURES.* AS THE SUMMIT OF 

 HILLS, NORTHERN, SOUTHERN. 



nPHE meteorological agents which affect the pro- 

 duction of fruit have never received from hor- 

 ticultural writers the notice which they deserve. 

 They are necessarily more recondite than the qual- 

 ities or condition of the soil ; and because less 

 evident, they have been j)assed over in silence ; yet 

 the importance of understanding atmosjDheric phe- 

 nomena is, in some respects, even greater than a 

 knowledge of the soil. 



In one part of a country a certain fruit is utterly 

 worthless ; its wood is killed by the winter, and its 

 skin becomes spotted and cracked in summer. This 

 same variety may, in another district, be universally 

 fair and delicious, while its wood remains as free 

 from damage in the winter as the native trees of 



