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Our next list relates to Mr. Beaumont's grounds, whicli are at 

 an altitude of from 1370 to 1460 feet, facing the north, and cut 

 off from the south by a ridge of high moorland. 



Pruits ripen. — Strawberry, apple, peach, pear, cherry, plum, 

 red currant, black currant, rasp, gooseberry. 



Vegetables. — Peas, beans, asparagus, beet, sea kale {Cramle), 

 broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, cress {Le- 

 piclium sativum), garlic, leek, lettuce, Sinapis alba, onion, parsley, 

 parsnip, rhubarb, radish, rampion, salsafy, spinach, turnip, vege- 

 table marrow, potato, basil, fennel, hyssop, lavender, marjoram, 

 thyme, balm, sage. 



Trees (have all lasted through several winters, but many not 

 flowered.) — Alder, ash, beech, birch, horse chestnut, "Wych elm. 

 Balm of Gilead fir, black, white, and red American spruce, Scotch 

 fir, silver fir, Pinus austriaca, Cemhra and laricio, mountain ash, 

 hazel, holly, hornbeam, laburnum, larch, Acer campestre, Populus 

 alba, nigra, dilatata, common oak, Turkey oak, sycamore, Pyrus 

 Aria, black thorn, hawthorn, walnut, Salix fragilis, viminalis, 

 Smithiana, pupurea. 



Ornamental Shrubs. — Sweet briar, Berberis vulgaris, Mahonia 

 aqui/olium. Thuja occidentalis, Ribes sanguineum, box, Cornus 

 sanguinea, Viburnum opulus, Lonicera caprifolium, Prunus lusi- 

 tanica, P. lauro-cerasus, holly, Kerria japonica, mezereon, lilac, 

 privet, Wellingtonia, snowberry, Irish and common yew, white 

 and yellow broom, ivy, juniper. Azaleas {pontica, &c.), rhodo- 

 dendrons, roses {alba, &c.). 



Rainfall. — Of the six hundred and six British plants with a 

 southern tendency, we find that one hundred and twenty-seven 

 show a decided preference for the east, and seventy for the west 

 side of the island, and this no doubt is principally to be explained 

 by the fact that the former is drier, both above and below the 

 surface of the earth. But, as the distribution of the rainfall 

 through our province cannot be traced to have any appreciable 



