Heavenly Earth

Specializing in native Carolinian trees and shrubs. | Early French explorers in what is now southern Ontario..., especially the region between the Niagara and Detroit rivers, noted with amazement the character and diversity of the flora. In variety and lushness, it seemed to belong to a much warmer climate. European botanists, such as Kalm and Rafinesque, who came to North America in the middle decades of the eighteenth century, noted the phenomenon