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above it. Here, in the boUow of a disused limekiln, I saw last June 
a small crop of stunted Eliubarb, and was told by tbe occupant of tlie 
house, that Turnips and Potatoes bad also been grown. In treating 
of the botanical geography of the North Eiding of Yorkshire I have 
been in the habit of taking 600 yards as the line of limit between 
AVatson's Agrarian and Arctic regions, and here we have one solitary 
instance of three species having been grown, under favourable circum- 
stances, at 200 feet higher. For the three Allendale gardens already 
referred to, which may be taken in round numbers at 550 yards, the 
list is as follows, viz. : 
Fruit. — Plum, Raspberry, Eed Currant, Black Currant, Gooseberry, 
and, strange to say, Rubus saxalilis grown in a bed after the fashion of 
Strawberries. 
Kitcheu G ar Jen. —Yoiaio, Ehubarb, Turnip, Cabbage, Mentha gen- 
tilh and M, viridis^ AntJiemis 7iobilis, Southernwood, Wormwood^ Let- 
tuce, Carrot, Caidiflower, Tropteolum, Marjoram, Onion. 
Trees and Ornamental Shrubs. — Sycamore, Ash, Larch, Spruce, 
Scotch Fir, Hawthorn, Eowan, Ulmns montana, Syringa vulgaris^ Rosa 
alba, Salix viminalis, S. purpurea, S. SmitUana, S, phylicifoUa. 
Moicer Garden. — Aconitum Napellns, Iris Gerrnanica, Hesperis ma- 
tronalis, Bielytra formosa, Pyrelhmm Partkeniim, AqniJegia vulgaris, 
Scrophdaria nodosa, Eibbon-grass, Bianthus barhatus, Centaurea mon- 
tana, Polemonimn c-^ndeum^ Upilobitm ayignstifoUum, Alchemilla vul- 
garis, Sediim Rhodiola, Mecouopsis Cambrica, Verbascum Thapsus. 
Weeds. — Epilobium montatium, Poa annuoy Ranunculus repens, La- 
7ninm piirpureum, Siellaria media, Phalaris Canariensis. 
Descending a stage lower, at 1600 feet, we get Beans and Pisurn 
arvense. An extensive garden surrounds Mr. Beaumont's hall at Al- 
lenheads, which ranges in altitude from 1370 to 1460 feet, and this 
yields a large number of additional species of each class, especially of 
the second. As this list is of less general interest, I reserve it for the 
Flora. In Allendale, at the present time, Wheat is grown within five 
miles of Allenheads at an altitude of 800 feet, and Barley and Oats 
within three miles of Allenheads at from 1000 to 1100 feet; but Oats 
have been formerly grown as a feld crop at Coal Clough, at 550 yards. 
In Weardale the highest field of each kind of grain which we saw were 
measured by aneroid as under, viz. Oats, 1340 feet ; Barley, 1000 
feet; Wheat, 750 feet. 
Sowerhg, near ThirsJc, Oct. IGlhy 1865. 
