... NATURE NOTES. TO ATTRACT 81E8. If you want. the bees to visit your gartlen--and if you know anything of plant life, you will be aware that they are a necessity—invite them by having plants which bear blue blossoms. According to Lord Avebury, they manifest ...

... NATURE NOTES. A marked feature of the trade of the week is the fruit markets of the Midlands Las been the bilberry boom. As there is a shortage in the Eng- lish black currant crop the retail fruiterer. bay up the chimp foreign bilberries readily. Grimsby ...

... NATURE NOTES THE ABBOTBSURY SWANS. There are more than a thousand swans at Abbotabury, living • perfectly natural life, and none of them pinioned. The result is (says the County Gentleman ) that the visitor sees, what it is not possible to see on the ...

... NATURE NOTES. BEARS THAT MAKE ROADS. The best road-maker in Alaska, according to an Alaskan guide of many years' experience, is the brown bear. Not only are the banks of the streams trodden into good trails by these great animals, but the swampy places ...

... NATURE NOTES. WHIN TRi L071817.R MOULTS. Below is a sketch of a lobster's claw. which explains how the lobster, wishing to shed its shell, withdraws the fleshy part of the big claw through the narrow opening at the base of the limb. In this sketch the ...

... NATURE NOTES. HOOKING AN The Kirkcudbrightshire Adevruser reports that while angling the ather . day on the Fleet, at Gatehouse, lfr, R.,H. itacactom, Liverpool, bad a singular experience, in' which' he bttke Ms rod and lost his strange fish. Gliding ...

... NATURE NOTES. THE GENTLE DEW. The dew that is annually deposited on as nip face of Eugland is equal to Sin. of rain. ItCHDROUB FLIGHT. An albatross has been known to follow a ship for two months without ever having been seen to alight. WHERE THE WEATHER ...

... NATURE NOTES. rA SPLENDID SNARE, In the reptile house at the Londmi Zoological Gardens there is now to be seen a reokrlcably large erantpity of the Australian -carpet-python. I Its length is estimated at Wt., which is said to exceed that of the largest ...

... NATURE NOTES. COWARD SHARKS. The cowardice of sharks is well-known among men who have been much to sea in Southern waters. The fieroest shark will get out of the way of a swimmer if the latter seta up a noisy splashing. Among the South Sea Islands (says ...

... NATURE NOTES. AM INSECT PLAGUE. As a result of the excessive wet weather of last year we are destined to suffer a plague of gnats. Midges and such-like insects spend the earlier stages of their lives in the water; and, as a general rule, they do not multiply ...

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... NATURE NOTES: A WHISTLING TREE. The Tooter, or whistling tree of South Nubia, I. so 'called from the dote-like sounds made by the wind in itit branches. The sound is cavilled 'Thies bitted by an insect the spines et this benches. 1 . : A WONDERFUL SPIDER ...