the wide world. Tn no other country are there such apples found 
as grow here . And the territory is by no means restricted; 
for apple crehards flourish from the Atlantic to the Pacific," 
Notwithstanding the almcst universal cultivaticn of the 
apple in +he temperate acne, it will be generally admitted 
that lecation and soil affect both quantity and quality. Coxe, 
one of ~he earlies writers on American Pomology, tiaintainea 
that “the middie states are most favorable to the producticn 
of fine table apples and cider. It will probably be found tnat 
the River Mohawk, on the north and the River James on the South 
form the limit @f that district of the country which proauces 
apples of that degree of richness and fievor for both purposes, 
T~ will not be denied shat apples grow well in tne intericr 
and elevated parts of the Southern States, as «ell as in the 
favorable exposures in the Nerthern and Eastern, Host cf the 
fine varieties have been produced within these limits, Handsome 
and fsir apples are grown in Naine and Novia Scotia, but they 
de not posess the fine flavor of the apples of the middle 
States. The same is true of thé apple orchards produced in the 
Plains cf Georgia and the hilis of St. Domingo. Cold and heat 
are equally necessary to the production of fine apples, - nei- 
ther predominating in soo great a degree." 
The preceeding parafraph clearly shows that the natural 
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