... 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. Halley's Comet. Ia the paragraph signed F. in the Manchester Courier, I can answer in the afflnnative. My father pointed out the comet to me, and told what the object was. I am not sure whether the season was spring autumn, but the sky ...

... NATURE NOTES. Many observations are on record respecting the first appearances of plants, but few which inform us of their disappearance. We all know, for example, that the primrose is frequently plentiful in March, and is at its prime about the middle ...

... NATURE NOTES SHELTER PLANTATIONB. Before the Newcastle Farmers' Club, ow Saturday, Mr. A. C. Forbes read a paper on Shelter Plantations for Cattle. The only alternative to shelter belts, he said, was buildings, and these were too expensive. His idea ...

... nature\ notes covered in ‘warts’. Toads’ legs tend to be shorter and less powerful than those of frogs, so toads appear to walk or amble where the frog mainly jumps or hops. I found some amazing facts about toads, for example many hospitals used to keep ...

... 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 ...

... ot — “~apn of twa” = NATURE NOTES. Though we have bad very celd weath week, and you etil] see the snow ith biti tops, it met stop me from ha walk im the country te have a look in u: garden. Though ome may fee! dul during winter. it makes one’s to bear ...

... NATURE NOTES. Lotto Jouatrzys. So extensive are the feeding rounds and so rapid the movements of the wild ostrich, that as many as fifty or sixty miles are often travelled by it between daybreak and dark. MTSTID TO LITE. It is a common experience amongst ...

... nature notes I LAY ‘as snug as a bug in a rug’ in bed the other night with the rain and wind lashing against our bedroom window when we heard the first call of a vixen! It’s a really eerie call and fits the solitary image of the fox down to a tee, and ...

... NATURE NOTES. A SPLENDID SNAKE. In the reptile house at the London Zoological Gardens there is now to be seen a remarkably large example of the Australian carpet-python. Its length is estimated at 18ft., which is said to exceed that of the largest preciously ...

... NATURE NOTES. I - - • - t Garden and Orchard. From window framed in Virginia creeper, now glowing Kith time, it is possible to look slightly tonobed by frost, while rhodo Aendnans and broom ami are all putting fOrrh new blooms a- spring were returne. ...

... NATURE NOTES WOMAN'S WORLD. Ft has bees wisely said that an SHELTER PLANTATIONS. Ottuuntu ounce of real sYmpathy is worth Before the Newcastle Farmers' Clab, SYMPATHY. a bushel of adviee. Generally, Saturday, Mr. A. C. Forbes read a paper on advice is ...