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... NATURE NOTE Mr Dahl’s flower lili rjAHL, a Swcduh botanut who wa» a pupil Linnaeut, pave hi* name to the dahlia which brighten* *o many thoueands garden* in summer and autumn. Dahlia* were first brought from Mexico to Spain at (he end of the ISth century ...

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... NATURE NOTE Jfr J. C. Cowe, Berwick, while walking along the banka (be Whitadder last week, observed pair kingfishers disporting themselves. A little further down the river, Edington Mill, saw another pair. It ia not often that two pairs of these birds ...

... NATURE NOTE ** One day at lunch saw a cat with something in its mouth climb our wall. We found the cat was carrying kitten.”—Daily Paper. So wc had a cup of tea immediately. —Punch. ...

... NATURE NOTE. A. Dover newspaper recently contained the following paragraph:—“A very fine specimen of water otter was'caught on the slope the root of the Eastern Arm this week by one of the workmen. It is being kept in a tub near the scene of its capture ...

... NATURE NOTE IMTAT a Durham miner (in foreshift 3 am, to 10-40 am. this midsummer week) record the thrill of a working year? This morning. 3-30 a.m.. on his way to pit, dawnglow was beginning to expand over the grey sea, whose quiet breaking on the beach ...

... NATURE NOTE The Buck Otter Hounds are stated to have killed no less than seventy otters this season in the county. This does not look as though these interesting animals were becoming extinct. The most extraordinary of all self-mutilating animals is the ...

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... NATURE NOTE “Forget me not Forget-me-not. No, the bad treatment and respond flower is not a blue forget-me- quickly to kindness, not. If* just what the plant There are white. pink, from which this drawing was purple, orange and all sorts of made might ...

... NATURE NOTE A. swallow wa» observed on Thursday morning. Ist November, feeding at John’s Point, the Magdalene Fields. This is very late for swallow to seen in this area. The bird was watched for some time by Mr William Armstrong, Church Street. ...

... Nature Note. A Wooler orro«|K>i.dc-ni writes timber observed that the leaves the ivy nt my garden were being eaten by what 1 thotigul would le i aterpillars, but on making a very close investigation I failed find any amongst the leaves or stalks. However ...