... NATURE NOTES. The countryside is lovely jtet now, and the meadows are ripe unto harvest. I walked through a meadow on Saturday where the grass was three feet high. In :he hedger OW9 the blackberry flower ie already appearing, and the fields are , overed ...

... NATURE NOTES (By Walter J. Vernon. Chester) BEES (23) ?A,RASITISAI Where the carcase is. there wt..; the aLso.' might be parapnra_ed in.o Where industry is. there isi.l the parasites De also,' tar wiser, you lino that an has lien toriuna.e or succu,- ...

... Nature Notes Th. densest mass of water-crowfoot in these parts is now in flower over half the lake at Wrightingtnn Hall, between Parbold and Standish (writes EH.). It makes a wonderful sight. There were eight young coot, seven young wild duck. and ...

... NATURE NOTES. - , Uwe any of you boy% and girls the grasshopper during your summer holidays? If you ita%e not you have numbed a treat giusshopper family is the most livvly svt 1 have ever met. There are nu slow-omuliee UI it, no strikers or lazy-bones ...

... NATURE NOTES. To-day e m I walked in the country. I came across a littio chaffinch with a broken wing. It was hopoing about the lane in search of food. and looked as if it. was struggling to make the best of hfe—a4 it The meadowl are being turned into ...

... NATURE NOTES. Crops Cheshire. The combined influence sunshine and shower, writes a Holmes Chapel contributor, favouring the growthj of mangels and swedes, which have now reached a useful size. apprehend that mangels growth will soon cease, for they are ...

... NATURE NOTES. HOW BIRDS TRAVEL ordinary route of our travelling birds autumn is from nor'-nor'-east to sou-sou because the cold north north-east wind which makes them move and the natural trend the land ope is to the south and south-west. The bird* do ...

... NATURE NOTES. Rivers in Flood. A feature of this week the country the spates that are following the thawing the snows in the uplands. The rivers and becks are rumbling with brown turbulent floods, and making up for the extrao dinary lowness and clearness ...

... NATURE NOTES. Grateful Ghosts. A dear little girl told me the other day that it might winter the daytime, but it was always summer at night. When I asked for an explanation, she said that her bed was always surrounded by buttercups and daisies and harebells ...

... NATURE NOTES. The countrys.de weekend was not a ery picasant place to be In. thunderstorms havoc with trees and beds, and the btreasna okerflowed taetr teaks. Crops were badly damaged, and an many cases were washed away. Thu litt)e of Louth, in Lincolnshire ...

... NATURE NOTES. OCT DATE. It not every year (says writer in the Daily \ Graphic) yon can oat and gather bunch of wild flowers on the Ist of December. Nor, perhaps, is worth while do even when you can. The lingering poppy, which still makes a bright spot ...

... NATURE NOTES S the days grow shorter the nights grow longer, writes Sand Piper. For some weeks now the countryside has been lively with the noise of our feathered friends on their nocturnal migratory flights to more congenial climes. Although peewits ...