... NATURE NOTES. Autumn has come in with mild warm weather, and the only evidence of the almost wintry conditions of the past fe%s weeks is in the havoc wrought in the gardens. and in the carpet of dead leaves by waysides and in woods. Nature is busily engaged ...

... NATURE NOTES. Winter is undoubtedly still with us, but with the lengthening days we see many signs of the caning springtime. Rooks are regular visitors at their old rookeries-and, in their less amatory intervals, clamorously assert their right to 01l ...

... NATURE NOTES. The grass which grew so quickly during May, has grown very little during the cold weather which June has brought., Insect life has also received a check. Moths and butterflies are few in number as yet, though increasing, but I have seen ...

... NATURE NOTES. So far as vegetation is concerned -the season is on the wane. Fewer plants will come into flower each week, though wild flowers will be plentiful and in great variety for many weeks to come. Honeysuckle has flowered freely this year, covering ...

... NATURE NOTES. In addition to the shortening days, there are other signs of the approaching end of summer. Birds generally are othermg . in large flocks, and swallows are preparm2 for their migration. Big masses of ragwort with lesser quantities of the ...

... NATURE NOTES. Dull skies, rain, and cold winds are still characteristics of the weather, last Satur day beik►g a splendid exception. The summer naw drawing to a close has given us an abnormally small crop of mushrooms. It it rather difficult to assign ...

... NATURE NOTES. Goklen August! the month of the ripening corn and purple heather; the month which gives us many signs of the coming autumn in the shape of ripening fruits and late flowers. In August the binds seem to have tirelj of singing, and scarcely ...

... NATURE NOTES. I have little to chronicle this week. A few flowers have appeared to show that the season is still progressing. In damp pastures we have the brown flowers of the common rush, and the sharp-flowerel jointed rush. Hemp agrimony, a big marsh ...

... NATURE NOTES. The weather is favouring the gathering of the hay harvest, and farmers are everywhere taking advantage of it. Vegetation by main roads is covered thickly with dust, but old country lanes are now at their best; roadside grass-plots are veritable ...

... NATURE NOTES. The weather, at the time of writing, :s making amends for the vagaries of the past few weeks, and is gladdening alike the hearts of the Nature lover and the Agriculturist. The shrill call of the curlew is still heard over the moors, but ...

... NATURE NOTES. Ni;hta are getting colder now, and area v the wvch elms near lower Hodder bridle ..,e changing colour and warning us of the coming Autumn. By the sides of two brooks in the district. we have colonies of the broad-leaved ragwort; this is ...

... NATURE NOTES. The weather has been cool and unset (led, and not at all suitable for holiday making, but many Clithemnians have rambled the country and made the best o; it. Wild raspberries are rape, and now and again -a ripe blackberry may be picked. ...