{generally happens in llie niuldlc of April, ihan tlie wLoIb 

 ▼egetuble creation starts into renewed life with a rapidity 

 and vigour that leava the season of sprinjj with such 

 doubtful limits as to he scarcely perceptible. In the fall 

 of the year, Sepiembor and October are generally fine 

 and summer like, and are succeeded by what is called 

 the Tndian summer, in November, during which the genial 

 temperature of the iitmosph<^re is extremely pleasant. In 

 Upper Cat)ada the frost commences at the end of Noven^her, 

 and continues tiil nrar April: sometimes it is the first week in 

 that month heiure the navigation is open. The climate, 

 especially of Upper Canada, is colder in winter, warmer in 

 summer, and aluays possessing a hrii;hter, clearer, and drier 

 atmosphere tliati that of (jreat Britain, but it is neither so 

 much warmer in summer nor so much colder in winter as 

 to he disagreeable. In Lower Canada, the winter is very 

 severe, the country being covered with snow nearly half the 

 year. In summer the highest temperattjre varies from 96 

 to 102 Falirenheit, but the purity of the atmosphere abates 

 the heat that prevails in most countries where the mercury 

 ranges so high. The spring opens and the resumption of 

 agricultural labour takes place from six weeks to 2 months 

 earlier at the Western extremity of Lake Ontario in 

 Upper Canada than in the neighbourhood of Quebec. 



SOIL AND PRODUCE OF WHEAT. 



In the course of the debates in the House of Commons 

 en the Canadian Flour Bill, it was repeatedly stated by the 

 advocates of the measure, tliat Lower Canada did not grow 

 enough Wheat for its own consumption, and that Upper 

 Canada but barely supplied the deficiency. This was denied 

 by several members. Mr. E. Ellicesaid it was new to him 

 to hear that the Canadians— nay, that even the Lower 

 Canadians did not grow a surplus of Corn beyond their 

 own consumption. Mr. Ellice had engaged in large land 

 speculations in Lower Canada, having one estate 18 miles 

 square, near Montreal, which, some years ago, he bought for 

 less than £10,000, and recently sold to a Company of 

 Proprietors in England for £120,000. A large portion of 

 the estate is under cultivation, and Mr. Buckingham calcu- 

 lates that it may, in 20 years, be rendered worth £500,000. 

 Colonel Rushbrooke said " That in the paper No. 218, laid 

 on the table of the House, there was a paragraph which stated 

 that Canada was now an exporting country, and that in a 

 short time she would be able to supply the mother country with 

 any quantity of corn, provided the British markets be 

 open to her produce."* 



•MejDoiial of Earl Mountcashel and ihft North American Committee of th« 

 Colonial Society in London, in 1842. 



