Advantages of High Lands. 59 
to atmospheric drainage. They offer various expo- 
sures, and they may be utilized as wind-breaks by 
placing 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. 
