Most of the crops introduced were temperate, high-value, capital intensive crops, such as vegetables (lettuce, strawberry, Japanese pumpkin, zucchini, bell pepper, carrot), flowers (statis, gypsophylla, carnation), and fruits (avocado, peach, pear, apricot, apple).
AT THIS time of year, lorries carry Kashmir's crisp pears and rosy apples from the temperate valley to India's capital and beyond.
The intemperate words of candidates and their surrogates came in a town that 80 years ago was considered the nation's most temperate, calling itself "the dry capital" before Prohibition.
The first epidemic with national scope occurred in summer 2009, with 26,000 cases of DENV-1, reaching the country's capital, Buenos Aires, in temperate Argentina [ 3, 4].
After poring over their maps some more, they decided that the logical region for the capital was a fertile, temperate, and empty area of sixty thousand square miles comprising parts of the states of Goiás, Minas Gerais, and Baja and lying halfway between Belém, in Brazil's far north, and Uruguay, in the south.
A break in the heatwave in the US capital has made for more temperate boating.
The grasslands surrounding Harare, the capital, are blessed with rich soil, good drainage and a temperate climate that comes from sitting a half mile above sea level.
It will take me six days (seven if a pleasant day's lay-over in temperate Adelaide is included) to complete the 3,522 miles by rail back to the shimmering capital of Western Australia.
The city of Adelaide, with a population of 1.16 million (Australian Bureau of Statistics 2008), is the capital of the State of South Australia and is situated near the coast in the temperate region of southern Australia (McMichael and Beers 1994).
Climate: Temperate and damp.
