Excerpt from Field Notes on Apple Culture High lands are preferable for orchards, from the fact that they enforce atmospheric drainage. Cold air is heavier than warm air, and it settles on the lowest grounds. All have noticed the warmer air on the hills, when riding over a hilly country at night. Crops upon high or sloping lands escape frost, while those in the valleys are seriously injured. In still winter weather I have known a differ ence of ten degrees between contiguous places with a difference of thirty feet in altitude. The aspect of the ground is sometimes important. If the locality is especially liable to late spring frosts a northern slope is to be preferred, since the trees will not start very early in the spring. Near large bodies of water, and in other places where there is no danger from late frosts, a southern slope is probably to be desired. Other things being equal, the southern slope will produce the highest colored and finest flavored apples. The same is true of a sandy soil. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.