"It may be asked, how comes it that these plants of asiatic parentage have adapted themselves so unreservedly to our Canadian climate and to a locality where winter temperatures frequently range down well below zero while in summer the thermometer rises to over eighty degrees? The first answer to the question is...to be found in the ever present atmospheric moisture and the purity of the air...The second is that their requirements have been met in regard to soil and their dislikes have been respected." Elsie Reford, "Gentiana Macaulayi, variety Welsii, at Estevan Lodge, Grand-Métis, P.Q. Canada"