The Garden Landscape Guide  Book: History of Garden Design and
Gardening Chapter: Chapter 3: European Gardens (500AD-1850)
Denmark Horticultural Climate  Previous - Next  432. The climate
and circumstances of Denmark are much less favourable to
gardening than those of Britain; yet horticulture is very
successfully practised, especially round the capital. There are
very fine apples, pears, plums, cherries, gooseberries,
currants, raspberries, and strawberries; and the common culinary
vegetables are grown in abundance. It may give a practical idea
of the climate in the neighbourhood of Copenhagen, to state,
that the Cerasus Laurocerasus requires the same protection there
during the winter that the Magnolia grandiflora does in England.
One plant lived for thirty years in the shrubbery of the
celebrated park of Dronningaard, one of the finest residences in
Denmark. It was looked upon as a great curiosity, but was killed
with the frost in year 1819-20. Pine-apples are grown in great
quantities in the two royal ga