470 CLIMATOLOGICAL KEPORT, 1869, 



4th, eighteen days later than in 1868. The first dish of straw- 

 berries on July 13th, or twenty-one days later than in 1868. 



Wylam. — Great abundance of hazel nuts in 1869. Hay cut 

 on the 5th. On the 6th the first dish of strawberries was ga- 

 thered. 



Whitley. — First dish of strawberries gathered on the 3rd. 



SeiJtember. — 



Wylam. — There has been a great deal of fruit on the cold 

 walls this season. One hundred and fifty-five dozens of apricots 

 were gathered from five trees, and two of those trees were small 

 ones. 



October. — 



Bywell. — The potato and turnip crops are good this year and 

 free from disease. 



November. — 



Wallington. — Hardy shrubs and trees have seldom been ob- 

 served so profusely covered with fruit as they were this autumn. 

 Several varieties of holly, cotoneasters, hawthorn, mountain 

 ash, sweet brier, the common rose, and many others, were all 

 very ornamental. This profusion of berries was considered to 

 be indicative of a hard winter of frost and snow, and the fruit 

 would then be of great service to many of the small birds. 



Beech trees were loaded to excess and bent down with nuts, 

 greatly to the astonishment of every one who saw them. 



John Coppin, Esq., has again furnished the Club with a list 

 of the wild and cultivated plants observed by him near Tyne- 

 mouth. The list is subjoined and not combined with the general 

 tables in order to facilitate comparison. The careful and con- 

 tinued observations of Mr. Coppin renders these returns year by 

 year of great value. 



