Show vegetation defes cold people in far north latitudes would have a bad time of it it vegetation was wholly dependent upon the heat 0 the sun says a scientist As a mat ter of fact wheat will grow in soil that even in midsummer is not thawed more than a foot below the surface in norway oats ripen under 69 debrea of north latitude rye a half degree and barley a whole degree farther north in hammerfest Hammer fest in latitude 70 degrees the grass grows underneath the snow it has been found by experiment that in latitude 65 degrees north barley will grow two and a half inches and peas three inches in the twenty tour hours for several consecutive days barley Is harvested in ten weeks after being sown |