... NATURE NOTES. TRIUNE CROP. A remarkable sight is to be seen in the garden of Mr. Dumbrill, London-road, Burgess Hill. A pear tree bloomed in the early spring, the blooms set, and there was a crop of pears. It bloomed again, and there was a second crop ...

... NATURE NOTES. PHILANIWROPIO 0091. Since the late '• London Jack began the btu& nem of a canine collector for railway charities he has bad many imitators. A correspondent stwbes some figures which show what large amounts can be raibed in this way. Load= ...

... NATURE NOTES. SEARS THAT MAKE ROADS. The best road-maker in Alaska, according to an Alaskan guide of many years' experience, is the brown bear. Not only are the banks of the streaau trodden into good trails by these great animals, but the swampy places ...

... Nature Notes. Kan. the rh•nce in the went her last Saha, day have had some very unsratinnii days --rlay• of told rhilly fonds and frosty nights. This oar of the ponaltens pay for rain M this mamma of the ear yin OW northern climate. awl ono. node illustistion ...

... NATURE NOTES• Local Farmer's Encounter with a Falcon. Now and again • he: stories of awn having cmintent a ith bussank. uwl*, and hawk*, but this. milli are Mum through fear or sematioaal enterprise greatly exaggerated. Tb is week n very , nine man ...

... NATURE NOTES. ENGLISH CRAYFISH. Schemes for the restoration of crayfish to tributaries of the Thames. from which they have totally disappeared, owing to the crayfish disease, are, the Zounty Gentleman underatands,eotertaiaed by some of the proprietors ...

... 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. A strange bird, supposed t be one .hake family, was sere not far front Penrith a few day. ago. From the deetriptinn 51 to use it may poisibly hare been thw rid-harked shrike or butcher bird. We ham shout • dome different kinds of Aril.. ...

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... NATURE NOTES: A WHISTLING TREE. The Tooter, or whistling tree of South Nubia, I. so 'called from the dote-like sounds made by the wind in itit branches. The sound is cavilled 'Thies bitted by an insect the spines et this benches. 1 . : A WONDERFUL SPIDER ...

... NATURE NOTES. March. proverbially speaking, time in like a lion ; whether, according to the old saying, it will go out like • lamb, remaina to be seen. do far, this tickle month has been in some of her bitter moods, and to those who are not strong ...

... 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 ...