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S|>caking of the climate of ( Md < >ntario in its different months. 

 Mr. Stupart. Director Dominion ttory, write*: "In \pril. 



vegetation make* rapid p- Eore tin- end of the month 



the trees arc partially in leaf. Temperature- of 70 degrees and 

 sometimes recorded. May is almost imariably a \ er\ 

 delightful month, with a mean temperature ranging between 52 

 and 55 . and by the la*t \\eek all tree- arc- in full leaf. The *um- 

 IIUT months are decidedly warm, with mneh sun*hine and \ ery 

 rainy days, most <f the precipitation falling in -bower* or 

 thunderstorms which gi\e -nllicient moisture to the rapidly ripening 

 crop*. With Scptemhcr come the first indication* of autumn, with 

 cool nights; hut it i* *eldom that ground fro*t* oecnr until < >d 

 which, with its supi-rh weather and glorious autumn tin;-. 

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

 often wet; but snow rarely falls until December, when the winter 

 sets in with blustery weather and heavy snowfalls, sometime* fol 

 d by cold spdls. during which the temperature may fall to 

 zero or lower. January and l ; cl>ruary are truly winter, and the 

 ground is usually snow-covered. With March come *ign 

 spring; in most year* all -now 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 *outh of < )ld 

 < Mitario in winter are that the -now fall i- -lightly heavier and the 

 temperature lower and le*s variable in the former than in the latter. 

 In the other months the differences of temperature le**en. I\orl 

 liffe and Stoney Creek being the chief extremes. Dealing with 

 differences in greater detail, Mr. Stupart says: (i ) " In the \a11e\- 

 of the Ottawa and the t'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 "f 

 May foliage is well advanced, and then follow* a deeidedly warm 

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

 and middle of September, included between the *ame i-otherm- a* 

 the greater portion of Francv. and. after a protracted autumn. 

 win:- n again befo- " In the peninsula of 



Ontario, or that portion of the province which lie* east of Lake 

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

 ' Mitario. the winters are hy no means severe, and the summer- are 



