... NATURE NOTES T was one of those quiet days that you sometimes experience towards the end of the year. The sun shone, there was no wind, but despite these facts practically no birds were in evidence. In the field beside the cottage, much of the ground ...

... NATURE NOTES. PLANTS AND SUICIDE. Do plants ever commit suicide? The County Gentleman makes a suggestion of the kind in the case of some of the clematises. You can (it says) plant a clematis which does admirably for a few months, even for a few years ...

... NATURE NOTES rolling sand dunes These were mergansers--those *■ Forvte stretched far ahead large, saw-billed birds whose' sanctuary. t>f eider ducks, short legs are placed so far terr.s and many other birds back on their bodies that: the tide gradually ...

... NATURE NOTES. AMMO pnetieally exterminated in its wild bate, the lemealcan bison IA nothing like so near eleanniete extieetion as some people imagine larked, it has just been made clear that-daring the lAA four yews there has been an increase in the Umber ...

... 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 mDMBLED rocks lay thickly on both sides the river here and numerous trees made the spot a very sheltered one. Insect life must have be« abundant Judging the many wagtails that were in evidence. Both the pled and the grey varieties were c ...

... NATURE NOTES. A HARVEST OF EELS. Over four tons of eels have been dispatched from Thorpe. in the Fens, within the last few days, to London. They were caught as a result of • trench being cut from an °vertu' mere to the sea in order to set free the flood ...

... NATURE NOTES Although the sun shone brightly the other day, there was little warmth in it; indeed the air was bitterly cold, with strong westerly wind that suggested snow—at least on the high ground. Never had the countryside been so barren and devoid ...

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... 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 ...

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... 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 ...