... NATURE NOTE Leaf-Cutter NEATLY anil with matlirmallcal accuracy the Icalcutler bee shears out circular discs from the rose leaves. The female only does this cutUnf-out business, and her work !s done while on the win*, and In that remarkable! The purpose ...

... Nature Note January Promise T ENGTHKMNG daylight to January begins to tall upon dim patches of green, that show where spring still slumbering, hut already stirring. In a mild spell during this month, Nature seems to smile In her slumbers ; birds tune ...

... Nature Note Midsummer Moon THEBE is no wind this midsummer night. So still U the air that the swish of hoots to dew-wat trass almost a sacrilegious disturbance of the hashed countryside. One Mg glowing star slearns like diamond In the coronet of heaven ...

... Nature Note In the Lane MOWHEBE does'the gnetoeo spring mm it herself soowef than In the ehelteied lane with Its high hanks end hedges. Here the ohy violet modestly with Use eyes velvet from the ohady nooks, sad the primrose eagerly eoegkt the village ...

... Nature Note Hibemators disturbing lumber In a a torlnlseshell butterfly was revealed In a state of hibernation. As these Insect blbernators will wake up under the Influence of mild, sunny period, even In mid-winter, one roliht as that they would select ...

... NATURE NOTE After Dusk THE night life of Nature's underworld Is busy time. When the summer sunset fades out, and shadows deepen under the brooding trees, a mysterious activity afoot In the shadowy nooks and umbrageous jungles of hedgerow and covert, and ...

... Nature Note Sun Mario TTNDEE the , «•“» sletmee grass, soddenlng SUP mi. «£, tad spread strand Jewelled win,'**- *5 like crystals stmn. threads. Flowere tare—a oyer the garden, n- Insect or twlnerlte livened the gloom Later, the low fi,-*. apart—blue ...

... Nature Note September LIKE the beauty of » rich 'inset, the loveliness of tember such n fleeting tUH that It is gone before we Ss» appreciated fully rare enchantment. Just the l»» flamlnafl rays and glow ( moments of sommerlike w linger with through Hie ...

... NATURE NOTE Dragonflies BY pond and stream arc many insects skimming In the sun. Among these the dragonflies are most conspicuous, gleaming like radiant Jewels as they dart here and there above the reeds and tasseiled sedges. In Nottinghamshire find many ...

... Nature Note Lady of the Stream 'DEAUTIFt'L vistas open out the late summer sun cuts s polden path through the fllray mitt over-spreading the waters of the beck, tempting the wayfarer to quit the metalled road and follow the winding stream. There Mature-magic ...

... Nature Note Green Alleyway rriHE man «lOi t>* (eyttc h»i not pamad thta way, and now little wtndtaa path la a preen alleyway beaet with uncurbed luxuriance of plant and graaa and pretradlnp bouaha. • Where the bdMiea meet overihead a canopy leaves a (Tarda ...

... Nature Note Patience A-wing between the mag and the plnewood NfsHAia as ondulatlnt waste of wUlowkwh, brackea, blreh serab. aad patches Usht pebbly soil where Uttle will grow. Day after day kestrel bouts these ■lope* flying mn»Dd tte , bow, pMatafl hwiwntly ...