Advantages of High Lands. 59 



to atmospheric drainage. They offer various expo- 

 sures, and they may be utilized as wind-breaks by 

 phieing the plantations on the slopes opposite the 

 severest winds. If they are near large bodies of 

 water, they are usually more profoundly influenced by 

 such bodies than flatter lands, because more open to 

 the movements of air from them; and as bodies of 

 water tend to equalize temperature, to lessen late 

 spring and early fall frosts, it follows that high lands 

 near lakes and great rivers are most desirable for 

 fruit -culture. The exact amount of exposure which 

 the fruit-grower may find advantageous must be de- 

 termined for each individual case after a thorough 

 study of all the local conditions; and in this inves- 

 tigation the discussion of wind-breaks, beginning on 

 page 62, may be suggestive. 



Despite all these remarks, there are certain cases 

 in which comparatively low lands are preferable for 

 fruit -raising, but this is because such lands are 

 moister, richer, leveler, or more sheltered, rather than 

 because they are lower than surrounding areas; for 

 all these advantages may sometimes be secured on 

 comparatively elevated lands, and atmospheric drain- 

 age be secured in the bargain. Strawberries are 

 grown on lower lands largely because such lands are 

 moist and level. Quinces and blackberries demand a 

 moister land than is usually found upon pronounced 

 slopes. In any event, however, the grower should 

 avoid flat lands which are hemmed in on all sides 

 by elevations, for these " pockets " are nearly always 

 frosty. 



