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TILLERS OF THE GEOUND 



CHAP. 



the winters are nearly as cold as in Alaska. The} 7 

 forgot that the summers were much shorter and 

 much colder, and they had to stand by and see 



their crops blacken 

 with the frost before 

 they were half ripe. 

 But the Government 

 botanists remembered 

 that the summers 

 were as short and 

 as cold in. parts of 

 Northern Europe, and 

 they brought over 

 plants from Norway, 

 Sweden, and Finland, 

 w r hich were too well 

 accustomed to cold to 

 refuse to ripen in 

 Alaska. 



Again, in some 



-bio. 15. Branch ot bpauisn Almonds. 



These Almonds have been intro- parts of California, 

 duced into parts of the United reat a l mom } orchards 

 States. 



were started, but it 



was found that the rainfall was too light for the nuts 

 to swell and ripen properly. Then it was remembered 

 that in parts of the Mediterranean where the rainfall 

 is too light for the almond, the pistachio nut does 

 well ; so pistachio trees were brought over from the 





