The Russians On the Amur; Its Discovery, Conquest, And Colonization, With a Description of the Country, Its Inhabitants, Productions, And Commercial Capabilities ..
The Russians On the Amur; Its Discovery, Conquest, And Colonization, With a Description of the Country, Its Inhabitants, Productions, And Commercial Capabilities ..
Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913
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Trees with soft wood are the poplar, aspen, larch, pitch, spruce, cedar, and Scotch fir; the conifers, besides furnishing excellent timber, yielding also turpentine^ pitch, tar, and rosin. There are various kinds of apple and plum (cherry) trees, and some of our European fruit trees, which do not succeed in Siberia, might no doubt be cultivated on the Amur. Such is not however the case as regards the vine ; for though grapes half an inch in diameter are foimd on the southern Amur, the berries a...re tart and not juicy. Himiboldt says (Kosmos i. p. 350), "In order to produce a drinkable wine, the mean annual temperature must not only exceed 49° F., but a mild winter of 32 90' F. must be suc- ceeded by a summer temperature of at least 64^." These climatological conditions do not exist on the Amur, for though the siunmer temperature on the southern parts of Digitized by VjOOQIC COMMERCIAL RESOURCES. 401 that river exceeds 64*^, the winters are extremely severe, and moreover frosts in spring and autimin are unfavourable to the cultivation of the vine.
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