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growers. The educational value of such associations is 

 likely to be beyond calculation. 



THE PLACE 



The choice of the place in which to grow fruit, leaving 

 aside the element of soil, is determined by the location 

 and the site. The problems comprised in the selection of 

 the proper soil must be determined for each particular 

 fruit. They are, therefore, special questions, and must 

 be treated in books devoted to the different fruits and 

 different regions, and not in a general work on fruit- 

 growing. 



The location is the position of the place as fixed by the 

 map or the surveyor. It is in such and such a township, 

 and lies along such and such a highway. It is a question of 

 local geography; it may lie in any one of a thousand 

 places in the general fruit-zones that were outlined in 

 the preceding chapter. 



The site is the particular or actual place, in the location 

 or on the farm, upon which the plantation is set. It 

 comprises the aspect as to whether the exposure is toward 

 the north or the south, and the consideration of the minor 

 elevations and other topographical features of the place. 



To proceed, then, from the general to the specific, we 

 may say that a certain fruit-plantation is located at X, in 

 the state X, and that it has a high site, with a sharp 

 eastward exposure. 



In the choice of a location with reference to its geo- 

 graphical position, there are two chief elements to be 

 considered, the choice with reference to market and that 

 with reference to weather; and to these we may now 

 proceed. 



