... NATURE NOTES The first house martins were seen in the vicinity of Wavertcn Church on May 23rd. but it is understood that a few days previously their presence was suspected in the locality without being positively confirmed. Th swift fairly consistent ...

... NATURE NOTES. The Frost and Cheshire Crops. A Holmes Chapel contributor writes: There were eleven degrees of frost on Sunday morning, accompanied by a dense fog, which made the cold much more penetrating, and Monday morning we had degrees. Potatoes that ...

... NATURE NOTES It Is quit* common to see the bursting bud, on bushes, which have not yet lost all their winter berries. Some few pear trees appeared ready to open out early as the middle of February. Many herbaceous plant* including various kinds of primroses ...

... NATURE NOTES. There ono rose tree in the garden which a perennial trial its owner. Tho flowers it hears are very well fitted for what the late Mr. R. D. Blackniora called * hutton-holo garnishing purposes, and is too prolific. But it is altogether too ...

... NATURE NOTES. Madonna Lilies. Drives in the Isle are not given to be exciting. the road to Bhchington all that one could take pleasure in was the fields of barley, locking-rafter thunderstorm —as if they had been the playground of wild elephants: the ...

... NATURE NOTES. th c a , awthorn is flower, * m is ngled with 0 T hll he Earless blackthorn Soni - do not U get the full effect of \ X ahead. I. \ H »t ty. V ly finish I, , eSh re correspondent, Ski ,t(i(i ' earliest sown conditions, has I ,ooksn better ...

... NATURE NOTES. Derelicts. A few row*, all red. still weather the winter. They do not open freely, but a little indoor warmth and little coaxing convert them into relationship with their June kinsfolk, and their scent, slight, is subtle and beautiful. Near ...

... NATURE NOTES. The Golden Gors*. The golden gotse bloom* practically the whole peer round, but never it welcome than thaw dark of winter. At the mm is covered with bod* bunt Into ni»«f the first bright day. Already some atieltered cobmk beginning to htootn^ ...

... NATURE NOTES. Harvesting, Nearly whole the corn in this district, writes Holmes Chapel correspondent, has been carted under c.'iver, and this work involved a good 'leal of was difficult to get dry. ,-.rill uncarted the and Macclesfield district, aud ...

... NATURE NOTES. Chicory and Its Charms. I wonder we don't take more pains in providing ourselves with chicory. It is marvellous in its use, and some friends of mine regard it as indispensable both for stews and salads and dishes that accompany eggs for ...

... NATURE NOTES. Adventure. The other night the Child and I had what agreed was an adventure. We had gone out to . the pool below the hatches to look at the remnants of a sunset, and it was worth doing, for what had been smoke-grey bars of cloud turned while ...

... NATURE NOTES. Magpies. It always strikes wonder that have ! any magpies left, for they are so relentlessly per- j secuted. The magpie is a handsome bird at close quarters, but withal a thief. It delights to feed On the eggs of smaller birds, hence it ...