96 baker's north YORKSHIRE. 



The three latter cannot be kept through the Winter and the 

 Apple and Cherry trees, though they grow vigorously, do not 

 fruit freely. Parsley, Beet, Onions, Sage, and Mentha viridis 

 are grown up to 350 yards in other places and in a small patch 

 enclosed from the moor at Tanhill at 1,600 feet, Potatoes, Com- 

 mon Rhubarb, Cabbages, Turnips, Parsley, Onions, Cress, and 

 Sinapis alba have been cultivated. The Pear is grown up to 

 300 yards against walls and the Plum tree up to 250 yards. The 

 following is a complete list of all the ornamental shrubs known 

 to me as cultivated at 350 yards or upwards : 



Cytisiis laburnum, Rosa ritbiginosa, R alba, R. centifolia, R. 

 indica, Cydonia Japonica, Fuchsia magella7iica, Bei-beris ilicifolia, 

 Ribes sanguineuni, Hedera Helix, Sambucus nigra, Ilex Aqui- 

 foliuni, Syringa persica, S. vulgaris, Ligustnim vulgare, Solanmn 

 Didcamara, Lyciuni barbartim. Daphne Mezei-eon, Buxus semper- 

 virens. 



The following horticultural data refer to the most favourably 

 situated portions of the low country and illustrate principally 

 the power of the heats of summer. The Apricot ripens so as 

 to produce a fair crop once in two years. At Thirsk several 

 trees are trained against the sides of the houses in the public 

 streets, and in a favourable year the fruit has been sold in the 

 market at the rate of a shilling per score. The Black Cluster 

 Vine produces eatable fruit in the open air except in unusually 

 unfavourable years, but the Sweet Water does not succeed. 

 The Walnut in favourable situations will ripen its fruit every 

 other year. The Hop fruits but rarely in the open air. The 

 Spanish Chesnut does not fully ripen its fruit upon the tree, but 

 usually the nuts though small are quite eatable after they have 

 been kept for a fortnight. Figs will not unfrequently ripen in 

 the open air against a south wall, but the trees require pro- 

 tection in Winter. The Peach and Nectarine are cultivated 

 successfully ; in i860 some of the trees at Thirsk trained against 

 a wall with a southern exposure were pronounced by the lessee 

 of the Hampton Court gardens to have as fine fruit as his own, 



