20 NEW AMERICAN ORCHARDIST. 



The finest fruits of the tropics, when cultivated in coun- 

 tries remote from the equator, lose their good quality and 

 sweetness. In the climate of England, we are assured, 

 from undisputed testimony, that the finest peaches of 

 America prove " worthless." Even those which, confess- 

 edly, travellers with us so much admire, with but two ex- 

 ceptions, prove good for nothing in their hostile climate, 

 not coming to their full maturity and excellence, even on 

 the walls to which their cultivation is confined. The 

 Pavies, particularly, are there denounced generally, while 

 in warmer countries they are preferred to all others. 

 Fifty American kinds were contained in their garden at 

 Chiswick, at the time their account was written. [See 

 Pom. Mag. No. 54; also, Cat. Lon. Hor. Soc. for 1826.] 



Some others of the finest fruits of America, and of Italy, 

 seem also in that country to have shared a like disastrous 

 fate; and the Pomme Finale, or Mela Carla, which, in 

 the climate of Italy, is reputed to be the finest apple in the 

 world, proves in open culture, in England, but an ordinary 

 fruit, as their writers assure us. 



The reverse of this is also true ; and many fruits of the 

 north will be found to depreciate, when cultivated in a 

 warmer latitude. And the Wliitc Moscow, or Astracan, 

 which, by the celebrated M. Christ, is described as a fruit 

 so very extraordinary, " in a suitable situation and climate, 

 which is not under 49 of polar elevation," this fruit is 

 pronounced but at mediocrity at Paris, and with us proves 

 an indifferent fruit. And many of the fruits, the natives 

 of England, and of other northern countries, and of high 

 reputation there, have proved but ordinary when brought 

 down to our own latitudes, and compared with our own 

 fruits, and those of climates equally favored with us. 



The cherry tree, the pear, the apple, and many other 

 kinds, when carried within the tropics, become unproduc- 

 tive or barren, or the fruit worthless. 



The olive and the vine may indeed grow within the 

 tropics ; but we are assured they produce little or no fruit, 

 except in the mountainous elevations. 



The cereal varieties of grain, the annual plants and pro- 

 ductions, those most necessary to the subsistence of man, 

 have by him been acclimated from the borders of the trop- 

 ics to very high northern latitudes. 



Man himself has become habituated to all climates. 



