... Nature Notes. COUNTRY WEEK by WEEK A REMARKABLE GALL. the galls which occur on our trees are interesting, but one of the most remarkable is that known as the spangled gall, a small, button-like, brownish-red object covered with hairs and found in great ...

... Nature Notes. COUNTRY WEEK by WEEK BEAUTIFUL TBSE'E. There is some resemblance in general contour between hornbeam and beech, but the former has not the long-pointed buds of the latter, and its bark is of a whitish-grey colour. In summer the tree can ...

... NATURE NOTES. LIFE VI. Notes instance the part of hawk, when a flock of birds, was An account very unusual darthe part of owl has since been Traced me. A cage, containing Bong was kept outside the house, the outskirts or Exe- house is surrounded many ...

... Nature Notes. COUNTRY WEEK by WEEK OF THE MISTLETOE. good Cfinsrmas custom hanging up the mi«)letoe is said relic of the nature worship the old Druids. Before the cultivation of cereals, the siory runs, the people made their bread, what then took its ...

... NATURE NOTES. SIGNS SUMMER. (BY RAMBLER.) Wellcome, wild North Easter! eh®ime it is to see Odes to every zephyr; ne'er a to thee. Welcome black North Easter, o'er the Germau foam. O'er the Danish moorlands from thy frozen home. ■Come as came our fatihera ...

... Nature Notes. COUNTRY WEEK A MIGHTY HUNTED Dr. Johnson conferred a JJ® npon his fellow-countrymen, aD to stimulate culture in this co,: ® £ publication of his Dictionary* ce> less because, owing llo j ignorance, made a large 1 accuracies and misstatements ...

... NATURE NOTES. COUNTRY WEEK WEEK. Mi PLANT. One of the old eottage garden favourites ia the thrift sea pink, and is one of the numerous curiosities of nature which strike observant people that a plant which has its natural home on the seashore, where both ...

... NATURE NOTES. COUNTRY WEEK WEEK HBSTQfG-BIOKES. The Society has done valuable «ervice showing us how to attract wild birds by simple methods anyone can use who has a tree in his back garden. The sanctuary for birds which is maintained by the Selborre ...

... NATURE NOTES. COUNTRY WEEK BY WEEK. ' MEADOW SALSA* Y. Many the yellow composites are perplex* ingly hard to identify, but the Goat's-beard should not cause a moment's difficulty. In fact, my illustration yill be all sufficient to i enable anyone to recognise ...

... NATURE NOTES. WEEK BIT WEEK- A h need not an authority hothouse to be t3»t the Cypripedjums are one of the prominent types. No doubt it will surprise many readers to told that this genu* is represented in Britain by a very beautiful little plant, the ...

... NATURE NOTES. COCTNTRY WEEK BY WEEK. SEA SQUIRTS. animal classification is be found on muddy bottoms all around our coast. It is well known most people familiar with the commoner objects ol marine life by the popular name Squirt, as, when alarmed, it ...

... Nature Notes. COUNTRY WEEK by WEEK Fungi are mainly saprophytes; that is toy, they live on dead and decaying animal' matter, and not on living matter, as do parasites, though from time to time instances have been observed of species passing from saprophytic ...