tree-limit

Updated: May 3, 2025

Again: 'In Scandinavia the tree-limit is indicated by the birch; in the Alps, by firs. The two lower mountain zones of the Alps, the regions of the beech and the chestnut, do not exist in the Scandinavian mountains.

Various - Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 438: Volume 17, New Series, May 22, 1852