town has no station of the weather bureau and no records of con- 

 sequence are at hand. The climatological data may, however, be 

 approximately guessed at from the records of nearby stations. 

 For this purpose I give below a table containing the more impor- 

 tant records for several of our nearest neighbors : 



Altitude 

 in Feet 



Mean An- 

 nual Tem- 

 perature. 



Highest 

 Temp. 



Lowest 

 Temp. 



Mean 

 Annual Pre- 

 cipitation. 



Society Hill... 

 Darlington . . . 



Cheraw 



Columbia 



Camden 



Aiken 



Hartsville .... 



155* 



144 



351 



222 



565 



214* 



61.8 

 ? 



For 20 years 



61.6 

 For 22 years 



63.2 

 ? 



For 25 years 

 63.9 



100 

 In 6 years 



101 

 In 20 years 



104 

 In 22 years 



106 

 In 4 years 



100 

 In 25 years 



107 



192 ! For 18 years In 18 vears In IS years For 17 years 



49.31 



In 6 years For 13. vears 



8 47.26 

 In 20 years; For 21 years 



9 47.66 

 In 22 years For 20 years 



2 46.62 



In 4 years j For 42 years 



12 44.18 



In 25 years For 20 years 

 46.43 



From the data in this table the conditions at Hartsville may be 

 very closely approximated. Darlington is about fourteen miles 

 from Hartsville, Society Hill about seventeen miles, Camden 

 about forty miles, but the temperature of the two last places is 

 much nearer that of Hartsville than is that of Darlington. I 

 would guess that Hartsville is a little colder than Society Hill and 

 the least bit colder than Camden. It is considerably colder than 

 Darlington. As expressed by the vegetation there is a difference 

 of nearly ten days in the coming of spring in Darlington and 

 Hartsville, and there are some remarkable differences in the 

 native vegetation. For example, the following coast plants are 

 found wild or naturalized at Darlington but not at Hartsville: 

 Carolina laurel cherry, or mock orange {Prunus caroliniana) ,\ 

 Darlington oak or laurel oak (Quercus laurifolia), Decumaria 



♦Elevation at the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad station as given by their 

 survey. The Weather Bureau gives the altitude of Darlington as 175 feet. 

 All other altitudes in the table are taken from the Weather Bureau reports. 



%l know of about six trees of this species that have appeared sponta- 

 neously in or near the swamps and bays at Hartsville. In Darlington It 

 has escaped abundantly. 



