6 
PINETUM BRITANNICUM. 
Counties in which the places 
reported on lie. 
Number of 
places where the 
tree wholly 
escaped, or was 
only slightly 
injured. 
Number of 
places where 
some were killed 
or much injured, 
and some 
escaped. 
Number of places 
where all were 
killed or much 
injured. 
Total. 
Counties in which the places 
reported on lie. 
Number of 
places where the 
tree wholly 
escaped, or was 
only slightly 
injured. 
Number of 
places where 
some were killed 
or much injured, 
and some 
escaped. 
Number of places 
where all were 
killed or much 
injured. 
Total. 
SCOTLAND. 
SCOTLAND. 
Moray . 
... 
1 
1 
2 
Wigtown 
x 
T 
Caithnefs . 
1 
I 
Mid-Lothian 
1 
2 
3 
Linlithgow . 
... 
*.. 
1 killed 
I 
IRELAND. 
Stirling:. 
1 killed 
I 
Cork ... 
I 
x 
( 
1 (all killed but 
) 
Kilkenny . 
1 
I 
Fife . 
... 
thofe covered 
... 
1 
I imprick" 
, ( 
1 only flightly 
1 
( 
with fnow). 
) 
1 
injured 
j 
Perth . 
I 
2 
3 killed 
6 
Dublin 
I 
x 
Forfar . 
1 
1 
2 
Cavan . 
1 
... 
... 
I 
It thus appears that the trees in the weft, fouth, and fouth-weft of England and Ireland have 
efcaped with little injury, while the great majority of trees in the inland counties have been deftroyed. 
Another remarkable feature is that Scotland feems to have fuffered lefs than the inland counties. 
That may be due to one of two very different caufes : either to there having been a greater amount 
of fnow in Scotland, or to the comparative nearnefs to the fea of all the places reported on having fecured 
a lefs fevere degree of cold. It may be faid that, as we have not given the degrees of cold which each 
place was fubjedted to, the tables are of little value ; but the reader must remember that, during the 
winter in queftion, the whole country, England, Scotland, and Ireland, experienced a long continuous tracft 
of fevere cold. Mr Palmer, indeed, gives the loweft degree of cold in every inftance where it was known ; 
but it is impoffible to embody that in an abftradf. It will be fufficient to fay that, with a few exceptions, 
the temperature everywhere reached below zero. The exceptions are, of course, in the maritime counties ; 
but there, even, there are only 11 inftances, out of the 109 quoted, where the greateft cold was less than io° 
above zero, and none less than i°. The comparative advantage which places expofed to fea-air, and the 
climate that accompanies it, have over inland diftridts in the above tables, will appear more clearly if 
we pick out the places which are within the influence of fea-breezes, and contraft the refults at them 
with the refults at thofe which are not: thus— 
Places within the 
Influence of Sea-Breezes. 
Places not within the Influence of 
Sea-Breezes. 
Districts. 
Not hurt at all. 
Some killed or 
injured, some 
not. 
Killed or much 
injured. 
Total. 
Not hurt at all. 
Some killed or 
injured, some 
not. 
Killed or much 
injured. 
Total. 
1. South-weft coaft, as above. 
3 
1 
4 
1 
1 
3 
5 
2. South coaft, do. 
3 
3 
»* > 
6 
6 
3. South-eaft coast, do. 
2 
■ 1 
• • • 
3 
4. Weft coaft . 
1 
I 
1 
3 
4 
5. Eaft coaft. 
1 
2 
3 
... 
14 
14 
6. Inland and northern counties. 
6 
33 
39 
7. Scotland . 
1 
1 
2 
4 
10 
16 
8 . Ireland. 
2 
... 
2 
2 
1 
... 
3 
11 
1 
2 
14 
7 
14 
69 
90 
Thefe figures give an average of only one in five, as the proportion killed in trees growing within 
the influence of the fea-breezes ; and the very reverfe, or almoft the fame proportion, as the average 
of thofe not killed in trees growing beyond the influence of the fea-breezes. 
Within moderate bounds the amount of altitude above the fea does not feem to affedfc the tree injuri- 
oufly. Longleat, in Wiltfhire, 460—700 feet above the fea ; Watcombe, in Devonfhire, 400 feet; Eaftnor 
Caftle, in Herefordfhire, 520 feet; Emo Park, in Queens County, 506 feet; and Cecil, in Tyrone, 300 
feet above the fea,—are all places where P. infignis has efcaped the winter of i860, and is doing well. 
Neither the quality of the foil nor the nature of the geological formations on which the trees are 
grown feem to have much effedt upon its conftitution. Mr Palmer’s tables fhew the following proportions 
of 
