... NATURE NOTES. The honey season. except in the ease of those beekeepers who live within reach of the heather, is fast drawing to a close. The limes are now in full bloom, but this source will not last long, and the cold nights we are now having will, I ...

... NATURE NOTES. The last day of the fickle month of March and the home-coming of April are events *hat will live long in the memory of the inhabitants of Penrith. March had throughout been in a very surly temper, tut, taking the month on the whole, it was ...

... NATURE NOTES. We hare now reached the last month of the year, and, so far, the weather has been in keeping with the season. As write the surrounding hills have received a nice covering of snow, while the valleys end country generally wear a more wintry ...

... NATURE NOTES. In my wanderings throng;) the country this winter I have often been asked by bee-keepers what I considered the best fail to give to bees. In the winter season there is nothing to equal good sugar candy or flour candy. The great drawback ...

... NATURE NOTES. sons respects the present Season is cry like the winter of ISf 3. of which in he spring of that year I wrote as follows: fhe thaw came about the middle of bet for weeks after the farmers could not plough the headriggs on account the trust ...

... NATURE NOTES. October hus opened well, and, although we cannot tell what a day may bring forth, the weather us I write is all that could be desired for the ingathering of any corn which may still be in the fields. The harvest of the hedgerows is also ...

... NATURE NOTES. From where I am standing as I pencil this note there is a splendid view of the hills and rates of a beautiful portion of Lakeland. Some of the corn crops are standing in stooks, while others are apparently well matured and ready for the ...

... NATURE NOTES The lieldiar• nud redwing. two wellknow heralds of winter. have non arrived. Although I have recind s of both birds lwfore Martinmas. I did not see them in the Pesirith district before Saturday. 24th November. The fieldiare (Turdus pilaris) ...

... NATURE NOTES. On Thursday night I had brought to me by a young man from Plumpton a bird which had been killed by flying against the telegraph wires. At first I thought it was a black tern er sea swallow, but on examination next morning I was surprised ...

... NATURE NOTES. Daytime in the Penrith district has now commenced, and a s I pencil this note the musical ring of the mowing machine breaks the stillness of a glorious summer morning. July, which has just made a brilliant entry, is, generally speaking, ...

... NATURE NOTES. As I commence these notes we are still on the shadowy brink that marks the fringe of winter. To-morrow (21st March) the venial equinox takesplace, when day and night will again be equal, and, according to the almanac, spring begins. To a ...

... NATURE NOTES. Our summer birds with their young families are day by day becoming less numerous, and I am sorry to say the black_ headedgulls are now to be numbered among those which have bidden us goodbye fur th e present. These inland gulls are becoming ...