Frost-free zone

Usage examples of tropics.

The Peninsula is a gorgeous tropic land, and, with its bounteous rainfall and sunshine, brings forth many of the most highly prized productions of the tropics, with some that are peculiar to itself.

All things were harmonious, the glorious cocoa-palms, the bright green slopes, the sunset gold on the lake-like river, the ranges of forest-covered mountains etherealizing in the purple light, the swarthy faces and scarlet uniforms of the Sikh guard, and rich and luscious odors, floated in on balmy airs, glories of the burning tropics, untellable and incommunicable!

Imperial Institute series of Handbooks to the Commercial Resources of the Tropics, by permission.

The soil, which is continually washed down by the rains into the rivers, is continually renewed by decomposition of the bed rock, and in the tropics this decomposition is more rapid than in temperate climes.

Such is the rapidity of plant growth in the tropics that in three or four years the cacao tree is taller than a man, and begins to bear fruit in its fourth or fifth year.

When the world wakes up to the importance of tropical produce, agricultural colleges will be scattered about the tropics, so that every would-be planter can learn his subject on the spot.

In the tropics their power for destruction is very great, and they are a constant menace to economic products like cacao.

With cacao in the tropics, as with corn in England, the gathering of the harvest is a delight to lovers of the beautiful.

Several manufacturers have had their own buyers in certain places in the Tropics for some years, and it is generally agreed that this has acted as an incentive to the growers to improve the quality.

Whilst the war has not very materially hindered the increase of cacao production in the tropics, the shortage of shipping has prevented the amount exported from maintaining a steady rise.

In the hold of the liner it is rocked thousands of miles over the azure seas of the tropics to the grey-green seas of the temperate zone.

Many a young man, reading in some delightful book of travel, has longed to go to the tropics and see the wonders for himself.

In support of this I cannot do better than quote Grant Allen, who regarded the tropics as the best of all universities.

Few who go to the tropics escape their fascination, and of those that are young, few return to colder climes.

This is fiction, but I think it is true that very few, if any, who become planters in the tropics ever return permanently to England.