The New American Orchardist Or An Account Of The Most Valuable Varieties Of Fruit Of All Climates Adapted To Cultivation In The United States PDF Download

Excerpt from The New American Orchardist: Or, an Account of the Most Valuable Varieties of Fruit, of All Climates, Adapted to Cultivation in the United States; With Their History, Modes of Culture, Management, Uses, &C.; With an Appendix, on Vegetables, Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, and Flowers, The The climate of our country, in regard to' its capacity and vegetable productions, is not to be estimated by the meas ure of its distance from the equator, nor by the average temperature of the winter, or even that of the year; but rather by the mean heat of the summer, and its duration. For while the average temperature, or heat of the year, is greater at Rome and at Marseilles than at Cambridge, Mass. The average heat of the summer months may be nearly equal, since the mean of the greatest heat at Cambridge exceeds that of Rome by and that of Marseilles by the mean of our greatest summer heat being though 100° and over, in some summers, is not with us uncommon. 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.