Climate irn 



Here, instead of its being necessary to secure that the 

 plants shall have rest, the great thing is to provide that 

 they shall make the utmost of the very short spring and 

 summer which are all that fall to their lot. Their time of 

 sleep lasts on an average ten months, and during the 

 remaining two months they have everything to do, so that 

 it is most necessary that they should make the most of 

 their time. The days are, of course, very long, which is 

 a help, while the nights are so light as to be hardly like 

 night; and if Professor Nordenskj old's observations be 

 trustworthy, it seems that the plants do indeed turn every 

 moment to account, by growing all night as well as all da v. 



But many of them do a great deal of growing in 

 advance, so that as soon as the summer comes their blos- 

 soms and fruit, which need heat more than the leaves, 

 may be ready at once to take advantage of it. These 

 plants, that is to say, make very large, strong buds, which 

 are packed full of leaves and blossoms, in a more or less 

 undeveloped state, but with all their parts ready, before 

 the winter sets in. Directly the growing time comes round 

 again, therefore, they can burst out, and begin to gather 

 food from the air at once, and the plant is able to blossom 

 very early, thus insuring as much time as possible for the 

 perfecting of the fruit. 



Most of the plants ripen their fruit, but some few are 

 not able to do so, except now and then, when the summer 

 is hotter or longer than usual; and some which are annu- 

 als further south become perennials here, as they would 

 not have time to grow from seed, and ripen seed, in one 

 short season. 



During the long winter many are of course protected 

 by the snow; but there are wide surfaces here and there 



