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of new species. The perfume also of all plants and fruits increases gradually 

 northwards, while the sap diminishes proportionally. The wild bay is much 

 finer than in more southern lands, and is largely used in flavouring dishes served 

 at all Norwegian tables. Trondhjem is noted for its excellent apples, pears, and 

 cherries, and at Frosten, not far off, even the walnut ripens. Thanks to the 

 mildness of the climate and to the almost uninterrupted sunshine during summer, 



Fig. 66. — OsKAKSBORG : View taken fkom Koon. 



the cereals of the Norwegian seaboard ripen as quickly as in lower latitudes. Thus 

 at Alton, under the seventieth parallel, barley comes to maturity in ninety days, 

 precisely the same time that it takes on the banks of the Nile. But although 

 the Hindo islanders often ship barley for Christiania, there are parts of Swedish 

 Lapland where it never ripens even in favourable seasons. In Jemtland also it 

 often fails, and such years are called " green." 



The ordinary hind, or forest, of the Swedish plains differs little from those of 



