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Excerpt from On the Establishment of a Botanic Garden and Arboretum in Montreal: Under the Auspices of the Montreal Horticultural Society and Fruit Growers' Association of the Province of Quebec
Any question which may have arisen with reference to our being too far north for a garden to meet with success, has already been met' m a general way in our pre vious cons1de1at1ons and it only 1emains to point out that gardens are successfully maintained in other parts of the world, where the climatic conditions are equally severe. We find that there are gardens at Christiana, Stockholm, Upsala, St. Peters burgh, Kasan and Moscow, as well as at Helsingfors; let us, then, institute a com parison with these places. Montreal is situated in about N. Lat. While Chris tiana, Upsala, Helsingfors and St. Petersburgh lie close along the parallel of 60 N. And Stockholm at about Latitude alone, however, does not afford a safe means of comparison, as is well known, since other considerations have an important modifying influence upon the climate of particular localities The mean annual isotherm of Montreal is 41 F., and this is found to pass through Christiana and Stockholm, but considerably to the south of St. Petersburgh, Helsingfors and Kasan, and somewhat to the south of Moscow. Quebec, in a latitude of about and thus more than a degree north of Montreal, lies in the mean isothermal line of 36 F. This latter passes well to the north of Christiana and Stockholm, but passes directly through St. Petersburgh. It then bends to the south and passes somewhat to the north of Moscow, but well to the south of Kasan. From this it appears that there are at least two gardens in climates as cold or colder than Quebec, while there are no less than six gardens successfully maintained in climates of equal or greater severity than that of Montreal. 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.