12 CLIMATE OF MICHIGAN. 



for eight years at Traverse City, and nearly as long at Northport, show that 

 the mean temperature of the winter months is several degrees higher than 

 that of Ann Arbor, although the former are from about two and a half to 

 three degrees farther north." 



Among the Indians, as far north as Mackinac, may be found apple trees 

 doing well. Some are thirty feet high. They doubtless attain that height 

 because they grow in the midst of forests. Currants were planted on Snow 

 Island during the war of 181:2, which ate still growing and producing fine 

 fruit. Peach trees have, for the last nine years, generally borne full crops. 

 Peach trees from twelve or thirteen years old (in 1869) are bearing full crops. 



