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high or low, if the soil be good. But with the 

 more tender kinds, the case is different. Peaches 

 for example, if placed in a low, warm spot, are 

 more liable to destruction, than if on one more cool 

 and elevated. The buds are started in winter by 

 the reflected heat of warm localities. This fijls 

 them with moisture, even when they increase little 

 in size ; and the frosts to which low sheltered pla- 

 ces are peculiarly liable, subsequently cause their 

 death. Hence a cool elevated situation, by obvia- 

 ting this evil, is to be preferred. 



Practice accords entirely with theory on this 

 subject. An early settler of Wayne County, N. 

 Y. succeeded in raising crops of peaches for twenty- 

 three successive years, and all but two of them 

 abundant, by planting his peach orchard on a hill 

 a hundred feet above his dwelling ; although one 

 crop in five is usually destroyed on the ordinary 

 level, and nearly half the crops in low places. 

 Many other experiments have given a similar result. 

 There is little doubt that many parts of the north- 

 ern states, where the peach is wholly uncultivated, 

 would admit of its successful culture, by leaving 

 the low and warm valleys, and occupying the 

 neighboring heights. 



But there are some apparent exceptions. Where 

 a deep lake, not freezing in winter, lies in the bot- 

 tom of a valley, its softening influence on the 

 frosty air prevents injury. Sometimes the effect 



