Elements of agriculture, southern and Elements of agriculture, southern and western elementsofagricu00welb Year: 1908 ORCHARD CROPS 521 little elevated land in Alabama. Tlie elevated sections of Northern Arkansas grow immense quantities of fine a[)ples. Texas people grow a few fine winter-keeping apples on the lands having an elevation of 2000 feet and above in the western part of the state. The apples grown on the lowlands of the South mature in summer, when the weather is too warm for them to keep. In the higher, more northerly, and cooler sections apples ripen in the Fig. 84. — Figs at
Elements of agriculture, southern and Elements of agriculture, southern and western elementsofagricu00welb Year: 1908 ORCHARD CROPS 521 little elevated land in Alabama. Tlie elevated sections of Northern Arkansas grow immense quantities of fine a[)ples. Texas people grow a few fine winter-keeping apples on the lands having an elevation of 2000 feet and above in the western part of the state. The apples grown on the lowlands of the South mature in summer, when the weather is too warm for them to keep. In the higher, more northerly, and cooler sections apples ripen in the Fig. 84. — Figs at the Lxi-i^.uimkm Siaiiois fall, when the weather is cool enough for them to keep over winter. Where apples do well, they are more cer- tain to yield well than peaches, and the trees live longer. Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ai-kansas, Oklalioma, Mis- souri, and Kansas all have great possibilities in the way of apple growing. Figs. — In the United States the fig is one of the best and surest fruits that are grown, for latitudes south of thirty- one and one-half and for a considerable distance north
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