... NATURE NOTES. THE RETURN OF THE HOUSE MARTINS. With a favourable change of wind Nature's aspect has completely altered. Last week, we were lamenting the deaths of many swallows, which had come so far from only to die of hardship English s This week have ...

... NATURE NOTES. On dark autumn evenings when nature seems at her lowest ebb we often hear the soft mootural flight-note of the redwing. weep. a the bird travels overhead.. As I cams down William-street large numbers passed, travelling south-west, apparently ...

... NATURE NOTES. The Senses Bees. Those interested bee-culture have proved that bees have a tremendous amount of reasoning power, and that most their senses are as acute as our own. Certainly they can smell, and see and taste and feel. Indeed. Lord believes ...

... NATURE NOTES. Use for Elm Leaves. correspondent writes: Perhaps some of your contributors can state whether they have tried feeding swine and cattle on the leaves of the elm. I have read that these leaves dried in the sun may be stacked for use in seasons ...

... NATURE NOTES. Nuts as Fuel for the Human Machine. Your correspondent's suggestion regarding Chinese nuts a substitute for coal suggests me innumerable uses for nuts that seem to be ignored by the masses. For instance, the Brazil nut which comes to us ...

... NATURE NOTES. The Mildness of the Season. Miss F. B. Mercer, Gaw3Worth, Sidmouth. writes: It may interest your readers to knowthat the woods situated on the high ground not far from home, there is plentiful second crop of whortleberries or bilberries ...

... NATURE NOTES. Middlewich. «2* ,Tn ' and fruit * fro? * day ° r two * m It is bright V», diBe.°T' Provided with *>th. Jt is * climb smooth sur*-of banana« t0 * beCn im P° ' J . ' and S0 1 made for S the !ea ' correspon»f« Blv biT the nelds, looking a all ...

... NATURE NOTES. The Frost and Cheshire Crops. A Holmes Chapel contributor writes: There were eleven degrees of frost on Sunday morning, accompanied by a dense fog, which made the cold much more penetrating, and Monday morning we had degrees. Potatoes that ...

... NATURE NOTES The first house martins were seen in the vicinity of Wavertcn Church on May 23rd. but it is understood that a few days previously their presence was suspected in the locality without being positively confirmed. Th swift fairly consistent ...

... NATURE NOTES. Madonna Lilies. Drives in the Isle are not given to be exciting. the road to Bhchington all that one could take pleasure in was the fields of barley, locking-rafter thunderstorm —as if they had been the playground of wild elephants: the ...

... NATURE NOTES It Is quit* common to see the bursting bud, on bushes, which have not yet lost all their winter berries. Some few pear trees appeared ready to open out early as the middle of February. Many herbaceous plant* including various kinds of primroses ...

... NATURE NOTES. There ono rose tree in the garden which a perennial trial its owner. Tho flowers it hears are very well fitted for what the late Mr. R. D. Blackniora called * hutton-holo garnishing purposes, and is too prolific. But it is altogether too ...