"This much will be sufficient to indicate that the gardens are geographically placed where a climate of forbidding severity might well be expected and such would be the case were it not for the atmospheric moisture rising from the sea. It is this moisture which wards off any ill effect from the severely low winter temperatures and which, in the hottest summer weather, provides life-giving coolness to the nights." Elsie Reford, "A Lily Garden in the Lower St-lawrence Valley", 1949