8 PARIO 



Speaking of the climate of ( >ld < Milan., in its different months. 

 Mr. Stupart. Direct-^ Dominion < >Wr\ atory. writes; "In April. 

 vegetation makes rapid pi .md before tin- end of the month 



the trees are partially in leaf. Temperatures of 70 and 



sometimes recorded. Ma\ is almost imariahly a \ery 

 delightful month, with a mean temperature ranging hetwcei 

 and 55 . and ly the la-t week all trees are in full leaf. The sum- 

 mer months are decidedly warm, with much sunshine and \ cry 



rainy days, most ,,f the precipitation falling in sho\\ r t- , 

 thunderstorms which give suffirient moisture to the rapidly ripening 

 crops. With September come the first indications of autumn, with 

 cool nights: hut it is seldom that ground frosts ,,,-cur until 

 which, with its superh weather and glorious autumn tin;-, is one of 

 the finest months of the year. November, with shortening da 



wet; hut snow rarely falls until December, when the winter 



in with blustery weather and heavy snowfalls, sumetimes fol - 



(1 by cold spells, during which the temperature may fall to 

 zero or lower. January and February are truly winter, and the 

 ground is usually snow-covered. With March come sign 

 spring: in most years all snow has disappeared by the middle of 

 the month, and by the end the trees arc beginning to bud." 



The chief differences between the north and the s,,u:h of < )ld 

 Ontario in winter are that the snowfall i- -lightly heavier and the 

 temperature lower and less variable in the former than in the latter. 

 In the other months the differences of temperature lessen. I\o,-l 



<>ney Creek being the chief extremes. Dealing with 

 differences in greater detail. Mr. Stupart says: < I ) " In the \alle\- 

 of the Ottawa and the I "pper St. Lawrence we find a moderately 

 cold winter, but a singularly exhilarating, bracing atmosphere 

 makes even a zero temperature by no mean- unpleasant. Sign- 



:ring are not wanting early in April, and by the beginning of 

 May foliage is well advanced, and then follows a decidedly warm 

 summer. The whole of this region is. between the middle of May 

 and middle of September, included between the same isotherms a- 

 the greater portion of France, and. after a pi autumn. 



winter sets in again hefo " In the peninsula of 



< Hitario. or that portion of the province which lies east of Lake 

 Huron and north of Lake Erie and the western portion of Lake 

 ' Mitario. the winters arc by no means severe, and the summer 



