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Kursk and Voronesh, in lat. 51, are the most southern of the 

 points of special interest in Middle Russia. I fancy their climate 

 to be rather colder than that of sheltered city gardens in Mon- 

 treal, about as cold, I should say, as our exposed mountain slope 

 at Abbottsford. 



Kiev is decidedly milder, more like Toronto. 



St. Petersburg is in lat. 60, so far North that the stars cease 

 to be visible during two months in summer, the sun is too short 

 a distance below the horizon. A cold coast climate ; a Gasp6 or 

 Anticosti climate, one would suppose. A cool short summer, a 

 long changeable winter, not colder on an average than Montreal, 

 but subject to greater extremes of sudden cold. Early terminate 

 growth is the special characteristic needed here. 



Warsaw is a cold North German, rathe.- than a Russian 

 steppe climate. 



I have to tender my thanks to Mr. Robert P. Scott, Secretary 

 of the Meteorological Office in London, for his kindness in having 

 prepared for me a table of the temperatures, humidity, &c., of 

 certain points in Russia and Germany, and by way of contrast, of 

 Canada also. 



These tables are a great help towards our forming a correct 

 idea of those climates from which we may expect so many of our 

 future fruits. 



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