72 NOTES ON FOREIGN PRODUCTIONS EXHIBITED 
The brilliant colour in the fruits exhibited from these northern 
regions has already been alluded to. It is doubtless owing to the 
great amount of light to which they are exposed. And to the same 
cause must be attributed the “greatest development of the aromatic 
principle, where some of it naturally exists in the plants, the farther 
they are found towards the north. Dr. Schiibeler has observed that 
even an interval of 3^ of latitude сап produce a remarkable difference 
in this respect, and instances the turnip-rooted celery, parsley, horse- 
radish, lavender, coriander, and he says, “ Notwithstanding that most 
of our fruits have a sourish taste, yet this deficiency is counterbal- 
anced by the agreeable flavour imparted to them, as, for example, 
strawberries and apples.” 
It would appear from this, that the aromatic principle depends for 
№ mim on light, whilst saccharine qualities require both heat and 
ight. 
It is to the influence of the latter, in conjunction with the mild tem- 
perature produced by the gulf stream, that Dr. Schübeler ascribes the 
phenomenon (the only instance on the whole earth) that oats will ripen 
as far north as lat. 69°, rye 694°, and barley as far as 70°. He says 
that it has been ascertained from observations made at Alten Copper 
peculiar climate of Norway, will be understood from the following well 
authenticated facts :— 
Атмохр, (A. communis) lat. 58° 59°: ripens as standards in warm 
| | у ; ripen; andar summers. 
Am Аз Standard, lat. 65°, A fruit produced at Mandel, lat. 58°, weighed 
$ 02. ; at Hardhanger, lat. 60°, one tree produced upwards of 38 bushels. 
cor. walls, as far "e Bogne Fjord, lat, 61° 17’. 
RRANTS. Found wild as far as Finmarken, lat. 69°, 70°, 
Mile ci Wild in the owlands up to lat. 63^; eultivated as far north as lat. 
, . j 
E Wild, lat. 66°; Сов Nurs and FrusgRTS onlymet with in the south of 
Pracz. Against walls in the southern districts 
PAAR. Against walls at Drontheim, lat. 63° 25. 
шм. № wa i ШУ: the Green Gage will ripen both as standards and 
MASPBERRY. Foun growing wild over the whol 70° 
к Ж Meo mE wild o 16 whole country as far as lat. 70°. 
Sara rainn s d a 70° ; Elton, British Queen, &c., thrive admirably in the 
фы Nc "seres жр маш Хае үүө, from Christiania to Drontheim. The 
sacs ae bs probably in the world, stands in the 
from various ех i ‘mong the Apples, 
north of Europe, 
the Gravenstein appeared 
ne and seems to be a favourite variety in the 
re 1t succeeds much better than many of the 
