CHAPTER II. 



THE LOCATION AND ITS CLIMATE. 



IT is apparent that any advice respecting the 

 proper place for engaging in fruit-growing must be 

 of the most general nature, since the species of 

 fruits are so numerous, and the elements which enter 

 into a choice of location and soil are so various and 

 indefinable. Yet there are certain considerations 

 which are approximately fundamental, and to which 

 the reader may profitably give heed. These may be 

 found to be suggestive in improving one's practice 

 upon his established plantation, as well as useful in 

 aiding him in the choice of location and land. 



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 location is the po- 

 sition of the place as fixed by the map or the sur- 

 veyor. It is in such and such a township, and lies 

 along such and such a highway. It is a matter of 



"The problems comprised in the selection of the proper soil must be de- 

 termined for each particular fruit. They are, therefore, special questions, and 

 must he treated in the books to be given to the different fruits, and not in a 

 general work upon fruit-growing. 



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