... 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. lILBERRIEB. A marked feature of the trade of the weak is the fruit markets of the Midlands hes been the bilberry boom. As there is asbortage in the Baglush black currant crop the retail fruiterers bup up the cheap foreign bilberries reedily ...

... NATURE NOTES. This week I have to record the departure rem Penrith of the swifts, or derdins, herb hare fur the past three months been tar wrleome guests. There are few aigrants that do more. good in the wort I. malt. I.a noise about it, than live le‘ilins ...

... NATURE NOTES. At the Summer Islands, lillapoul. Roe-•hire, a large seal ramrine um 2,u. has been shot by as Island Revenue olff_er. That Scotch exciseman belongs to the breed who, when happy, want W out and day something. • • • AN ARTFUL SNAKE. Seeing ...

... Nature Notes. . touch of wrote that thi, ay. k to ',full the %alit. One after another. are WI. and. whether al. orater it or not. the beautiful ',v. a role the .. Silt 1e.,. our 'Jo u,. on or about the 20th Await. but I hail fain hoped that the iiitta ...

... NATURE: NOTES. This week an observer, Mr. Hodgson Harrison. writing to ate from the Barnard Castle district, guys: As I always read your notes with pleasure in the Herald every week, I thought it would be of interest to you to knon that as I was out ...

... NATURE NOTES. SEARS 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 streaau trodden into good trails by these great animals, but the swampy places ...

... 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. this week Dr. Sprott, Appleby, writes me as follows: I was much interested in reading your notes which appeared in last week's 'Herald,' quoting the communication from your Glenridding correspondent about locks of birth: observed feeding ...

... NATURE NOTES. If there be any truth in the old proverb Many haws, many snows, sic are assuredly in for an old-fashioned winter. Thrushes and blackbirds are having a glorious tines among the hedgerows iust now, and by and by the squirrels from the n ...

... NATURE NOTES. According to promise I will give a few details anent those two harbingers of summer whose timely arrivals were recorded in the Herald on Saturday last. The cuckoo was both heard and seen near the railway bridge not far from Milestone House ...