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PLANT-LIFE
In relation to its northerly position, Norway has a very luxuriant
vegetation; of phanerogams alone, there are about 1500 species
growing wild in the country.
The largeness of this number is partly due to the unusual
mildness of the climate in proportion to the high latitude; but it
is also partly caused by the great extent of the country, which affords
space for essential differences between its various parts. In the
northern districts and on the mountains, for instance, there is an
arctic vegetation, in the south-east a continental Central-European
flora, and along the west coast there is a number of species
which require an insular climate, and are indigenous to Western
Europe.
The richest vegetation in the country is found in the
southeast, around the Kristiania Fjord and the large lakes, Mjøsen,
Randsfjord and Tyrifjord; in the neighbourhood of Kristiania alone,
there are no less than 900 wild phanerogams. The climate there
is continental, with warm, not very short summers; the bird-cherry
(Prunus Padus) blossoms round Kristiania on the 17th May,
fruit-trees [[** sjk bindestrek]] about the 20th. In Vestre Slidre in Valdres, at about 61°
N. Lat. and 9° E. Long., where the bottom of the valley is almost
1300 feet above the sea, the bird-cherry blossoms on the 30th
May, the first night-frosts appear about the 12th September, and
the leaves fall about the 26th of the same month.
The character of the vegetation in the whole of south-eastern
Norway is determined by the conifers, which form thick forests
from sea-level up to a height of from 2500 to 3000 feet. Scotch
fir (Pinus silvestris) and spruce (Picea excelsa) grow side by side, the
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