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groups. I have seen few which were grown on the higher and 

 moister soils of the shale. In the deep clayey loams near the 

 Niagara, finer specimens can hardly be found, than are there pro- 

 duced. The orange quince is the variety usually preferred and 

 cultivated. 



The Plum here riots in all the luxuriance of a favorite soil, 

 and a genial climate, and in our strong clayey loams, when un- 

 disturbed by the curculio, its only enemy as yet, its burdens are 

 prodigious. All the finer kinds — and they have mostly been in- 

 troduced — flourish in high perfection. 



The Cherry in all its varieties, grows luxuriantly, and produces 

 abundant crops, of the finest developed fruit. A strong gravelly or 

 sandy loam is its favorite soil; but it grows vigorously, and bears 

 well in the clayey loams of the salt groups and limestone. 



The Peach, the Apricot, and the JVectarine, are less luxuriant 

 in their growth, and prolific in bearing, than the fruits already 

 named. The humid and cool breezes of our lake, particularly 

 during the night, keep the temperature too low to mature and 

 ripen these fruits to their highest perfection. An uninterrupted 

 summer heat is required for their yW^ development, which, in this 

 immediate locality is denied them. At Lewiston, and near Lake 

 Ontario, some twenty-five miles north of this, and below the raoun- 

 tain-ridge at some 300 feet lower elevation, those fruits flourish 

 in great perfection. With us they do tolerably well in sheltered 

 positions. In the warm, sandy, and gravelly loam, on the north 

 end of Grand Island, in the Niagara, are peach and apricot trees 

 more than 20 years old, 10 inches in diameter, in perfect health, 

 and bearing abundant crops every year, without the slighest care 

 or cultivation. Probably a more congenial spot for the stone 

 fruits does not exist in the same latitude, than this island affords. 



The Grape in all its varieties grown in this latitude, thrives 

 vigorous and healthy, but a protected and sunny position is re- 

 quired for ripening its fruit perfectly, owing to the same influ- 

 ences that affect the peach. The earlier kind usually ripen well 

 in almost any exposure. The choicer European varieties, how- 

 ever, need the aid of glass, and high cultivation. 



The smaller garden fruits, already enumerated, are cultivated 



