UNITED STATES. : ' 998 
summer and winter temperatures, the extraordinary difference in the 
nature and aspect of the vegetation of Pennsylvania and Maine no 
longer exeites surprise, and we can well understand why, in the short 
space of three or four degrees of latitude, we lose in quick succession 
the following native and cultivated trees and shrubs, which already 
enrich the Flora or adorn the gardens of Philadelphia, and are, for the 
most part, not uncommon, native or domesticated, in the vicinity of 
that city (lat. 39° 58' N.)—Magnolia glauca, Quercus phellos, obtusi- 
loba, nigra, falcata, and Chingnapin, Morus rubra, Liquidambar styra- 
ciflua, Liriodendron tulipifera, Diospyros virginiana, Cercis Canadensis,* 
Castanea pumila, Catalpa cordifolia, Gleditschia triacanthus, Ailanthus 
glandulosa, Andromeda Marviana, Kalmia latifolia, Cornus florida, Sassa- 
Jras officinale, Asimina triloba, and many others. Within less than 
twenty degrees of latitude, climates of tropical fervour and arctic 
severity succeed to one another with incredible rapidity in eastern 
America, and an interval of a few hundred miles is all that separates 
regions bound up for half the year in thick-ribbed ice from the cotton 
and rice fields and the sunny “sea islands" of Carolina and Georgia, 
crowned with the orange and palmetto, and where ice is at all seasons 
a luxury almost indispensable. 
Montreal, Sept. 24.—Arrived here from Hamilton, vi Toronto and 
Kingston, after a delightful passage, during which the surface of Lake 
Ontario was scarcely disturbed by a ripple, the sky nearly unclouded, 
and the temperature, even at this late season, delightful all day, and 
even after sunset. Toronto, where I spent an hour or two, is the 
finest town I had yet seen in Canada, built quite in the American style, 
with wide streets and handsome stores. The Locust is the favourite 
tree in the gardens and publie places, and with the Lilac thrives well 
and attains a large size, but the Catalpa, Broussonetia, and Ailanthus 
have quite disappeared. A miserable rainy day to the close, cold, 
` dark, and comfortless, greeted us on landing from the steamer Prince 
Albert, at La Chine, a miserable woodef town, but enjoying a con- 
siderable trade, and from which myself and fellow-passengers proceeded 
in a set of antique lumbering vehicles for the quondam capital of 
Upper Canada, which we reached about ten a. M. Betwixt La Chine 
and Montreal I observed Artemisia vulgaris abundant along the fences. 
* T believe this tree does not grow in any of Canada, nor in a wild sta! 
beyond lat. 41° in the United States a = E 
