APPLE TREES GO CRAZY 
the different belts only from varieties that are especially 
adapted to those belts. 
The northern tree taken far south wastes its strength in 
trying to become an evergreen, in its uncertain blooming, 
and in its loss of sleep. Its very appearance begins to 
take on a look of torture. It may worry along miserably 
for a few years with shattered nerves. But gradually it 
pines away and dies. 
How different is the rugged, gnarled, ancient apple tree 
of the northern orchard. Sturdily it stands on the hill¬ 
side, defying the elements. It may have stood there for 
a hundred or even two hundred years, for the apple tree 
is long-lived among plants. It is invigorated by northern 
blasts. It is hardened by those periods of sleep that come 
each winter. The soft life of the South is not for this 
robust provider of man’s most common fruit. 
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