Identifier: gardenforestjour41891sarg (find matches)
Title: Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Sargent, Charles Sprague, 1841-1927
Subjects: Botany Gardening Forests and forestry
Publisher: New York : The Garden and forest publishing co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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lies a region of somewhat milderwinter climate. The almost hardy varieties are those from which we canlearn the most on the question of climatic effects, and I wasearly made aware that the location of my first orchards wasone requiring hardier trees than were demanded for the oppo-site (western) shore and for the hills on both sides of thelake. That on the immediate lake-shore we often escapedlight frosts in spring and fall, which struck sharply higher up,was no evidence that winters cold would not practically de-stroy or prevent the profitable culture of a number of tree-fruits there which did well at higher elevations. Among thesetest-sorts are the Red Astrachan, Tolman Sweet and Pewaukee .November 25, 1891.) Garden and Forest. 559 Apples, and the Flemish Beauty Pear. At my lake-shore farmI cannot make them thrive, but they all do much better lessthan two miles away across the water, and 200 feet higher onmy own side of it. The cause is not quite the same in all cases. In fact I am
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Fig. 88.—Pelleea Pringlei, n. sp.—See page 555. not quite sure that I fully know the cause why fruit-trees thatfail on the east shore endure the winter on the west. It maybe in the different angle which the trunks of trees on the re- spective slopes present to the sun at different times of theday; or it may be in the greater angle of the western shore,which slopes steeply to the lake, while the eastern is a broadplain that receives the down-pouring cold air-streams fromthe eastern hills and retains them, while similar air-currentson the west discharge themselves quickly upon andspread over the lake. But one thing is certain, namely, that these cold,invisible torrents of air, pouring down from thehigh valleys, must be taken account of in the se-lection of varieties, especially for a commercialorchard. The land east of Memphremagog risesin great steps, about four miles wide, each formingnearly level areas, upon which are some of the finestgrain and dairy farms in New England. On the

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