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 be treated in the books to be given to the different fruits, and not in a 
general work upon fruit-growing. 
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