DIVISION X. N. COUNTIES. 



Ill 



Alt. and Exposure — 287 ft. ; exposed on all sides. 



Rainfall, 1879 — [Hartlepool, Hart Res., dist., 9 ms., E. ; alt., 

 164 ft. ; ht., 9 ins. ; 21-71 ins., on 101 days]. 



Min. Temps, and Dates — [Darlington, dist., 9 ms., S. ; alt., 140 

 ft. ; Dec. 1st and 4th, -5° : Gainford, dist., 15 ms., S.E. ; alt., 225 

 ft. ; Dec. 3rd, -2°]. 



Plants injured, 1879-80 — Aucuba japonica, 60 plants, kd. to grd., 

 2. Laurustinus, 80 plants, kd. to grd., 2. 



Plants uninjured — Araucaria imbricata, Cupressus Lawsoniana, 

 Picea Nordmanniana, Thujas, Deciduous trees, e.g. Beech, Elm, Oak &c. 



Observation — None of the Aucubas or Laurustinus were at all 

 pruned. 



5. Sunderland, Whitburn Hall. — Mr. J. Dobson. 



Gen. Char, of Soil — Light, on a subsoil of sand and clay com- 

 bined, with limestone at an average depth of 10 ft. 



Alt. and Exposure — About 100 ft. ; 200 yrds. from the beach, 

 and situated on a promontary on the exposed N.E. coast, midway 

 between the Tyne and Wear. The garden has the sea on three 

 sides, N., E., and S. 



Rainfall— [Sunderland, alt., 120 ft. ; ht., 6 ins. ; 26-65 ins.]. 



Min. Temps, and Dates — [Dec. 4th ?] 6° : Sunderland, dist., 

 3 ms., E. ; Dec. 4th, 9° : Lambton, dist., 8 ms., S.W. ; alt., 15 ft. ; 5°]. 



Plants injured, 1879 — Aucubas, 2. Fruit trees, 1. Holly, 2. 

 Ivy, Irish, on walls, 1. Laurustinus, 2. Pampas grass, 1. Peaches, 

 1. Quercus Ilex, 1. 



Observations — Bedding plants often do well here, but the wet 

 of 1879 being exceptionally great, for several weeks, we could not 

 gather a flower. Vegetables, French beans, a total failure; Peas, 

 never podded (sown last wk. of Ap. and last wk. of May) ; Celery, 

 failure. The only evergreens that thrive on this exposed coast are 

 Aucubas, Portugal Laurels, Laurustinus, and smooth-leaved Hollies. 

 The first three were kd. to grd. or greatly injured by the frost 

 in 1878-79. What little growth made in 1879 during that wet 

 and sunless summer was little able to withstand the winter, 

 1879-80, which denuded them of leaves. Fruit trees, which always 

 do badly, were in many instances killed ; e.g. hardy Apples, Lord 

 Suffield and Keswick codlin are the only sorts worth growing ; 

 Dessert Apples are hardly ever fit to eat. Pears stood better but 

 were rarely eatable. 



