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number of cities or large towns. He will not care, 

 perhaps, to grow what may be called the staple va- 

 rieties, leaving that effort to those persons who are 

 farther removed from points of consumption. It 

 would seem to be unwise, therefore, for the fruit- 

 grower who has access to several or many unlike 

 markets to attempt to copy the methods of those in 

 the west or south, who must grow largely of one 

 thing and grow that in sufficient quantity to com- 

 mand concessions from transporters and salesmen. 

 Fruit-growing can never be reduced to a dead level 

 of ideals and practice. In one place great speciali- 

 zation may be most profitable, but in another place 

 generalization the extensive growing of general- 

 purpose varieties may be best. 



Location with reference to frosts. In the last 

 chapter, the general influence of cold and heat in 

 determining the fruit zones was discussed. At that 

 place, the subject was the average annual tempera- 

 ture. But within these various zones there are end- 

 less minor variations in physiographical features which 

 have a direct influence in determining the areas of 

 the incidental frosts of late spring and early fall. 

 The reader must clearly distinguish between frosts 

 and freezes. Frosts occur on still, clear nights, and 

 are more or less local ; freezes are usually accom- 

 paniments of storms, often of high winds, and are 

 general or even continental in range, and their 

 courses are not marked by the whiteness of frost. 

 It was a freeze, and not a frost, which swept ever 

 Florida in the winter of 1894-5, and over the north- 



