Excerpt from Proceedings of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science, 2013, Vol. 47: Part 2As shown by the climate normals, February through April are not particularly conducive to plant growth and ¿owering in Nova Scotia (table There is typically extensive snowfall, and considerable snowpack remaining at the end of each month. While the data for Anti gonish Co. Are not available, the lower temperatures would sug gest even greater snowpack than for the Annapolis Valley. The mild winter of 2012 was characterized by an 88% reduction in snowpack at the end of February and 100% reduction in March and April.The relative absence of snow was re¿ected in the differences in temperature regimes between climate normals and 2012 (table 1.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.