... NATURE NOTES. one has had any cause for complain) against September this week, for it has given delightful weather. Late flowers, which were becoming pallid habit, rejoice in the sunshine again, and grow bright the roses of midsummer. Animated flowers ...

... NATURE NOTES. A FEW years' pottering about in garden helps one to realise that in this world's enterprises the joy is in the chase, not in the capture. The roses and phloxes, the poppies and anchusas wo have grown are well enough, but they cannot compare ...

... NATURE NOTES QUERIES. T, OIMAT Duct We The claims of the great black woodpecker be included In the lists of British birds have recently been revived by the reported appearance of two birds of this species at Sherlngham, on the coast of Norfolk. Being ...

... Nature Notes. NATURE’S RIDDLES, OR THE BATTLE OF THE BEASTS.* ...

... NATURE NOTES. NuMngr or Stams. Exaggerated notions prevail as to the number of stars visible on a clear night. clusive of the Milky Way, with its aggre tions of small or immounnbl! distan orbs, it is probable that scarcely 2,000 come within the gaze of ...

... NATURE NOTES. THE OYSTER-CATCHER. )The sea-pie, or oyster-catcher, as the bird has been very misieadingly called, is a familiar inhabitant of our shores wherever there are low-lying rocks, shingle, or sandy bays. The bright vermilion of the stout beak ...

... NATURE NOTES. WONDERFUL PLANT. A remarkable fact connected with the plant is its alneoet entire immunity from Use a, tacks of insects, and from those diseases which infect the cereals and other vegetable growths, SS also that it supplies a wholesome diet ...

... NATURE NOTES. The chiff-chaff should hare been here by now, though Bloraefield gives bis mean date late April 7th. This little bird is generally reported before the middle of March. But fh© week blizzards that has surrounded the first day of spring this ...

... NATURE NOTES QUERIES. 1 Bums or a RaaWAY Jammu. The interior of a railway carriage dasking througn the country at a pace of many miles an hour is hardly an ideal place from which to observe bird life, yet if the passenger make the most of his chances ...

... NATURE NOTES. Already the mmmm te hegimtiag for that moot interesting activity of the entomologist's year, the rearing inserts from ogga. soon the poplars are in leal search should made the egg* the Poes Moth. are almost iavariabl? laid on the upper aids ...

... NATURE NOTES. “Cool a 8 & cucumber” is mot merely a popular nyin&. but a scientifioc fact, the temture of that v:’otablo slways being a mu below that the surrounding atmosphere. A Curm-anx. Man tures during August and September frzmp:‘diltaneo .pgoar ...

... NATURE NOTES. It was very cold yesterday, according t everybody but the thermometer. There is no instrument show just how much colder is an east wind that does not quite freeze than ten degrees of frost. Nevertheless, it i« a fact that the keen wind that ...