Acclimatization and Extension of Japanese Ornamental and Useful Plants in Europe.

The acclimatization of a plant is its adaptation to the climate and soil of a strange locality. It is evident that its naturalization will be the easier the more closely the new dwelling-place conforms in both these particulars to the old; and, on the other hand, that it must be difficult in most cases, if not impossible, wherever these are widely divergent. For the inner structure of the plant, and its whole development, depend most intimately on the conditions of its nourishment by climate and soil.