... NATURE NOTE. Not for many years have plum trees blossomed so well in the district. Orchards arc a show. ...

... A KNOWING BIRD. An esteemed correspondent sends us following interesting -nature note' : Many people are prone to think that birds are guided oy instinct, and not by reason, anu probably, in many casts, they are right. however, one finds the exception ...

... prison bars in America, even Al Capone must admit that it takes a lot of doing to kill time. + x The lad who wrote this Nature Note has a future : 'The Cuckoo won't feather his own nest, because he's the communist of the feathered tribe. There's far ...

... herbs., and it is now proposed to organize the industry in this country. C- ii - cid was WAS I the i were mygtifying I NATURE NOTE. The corn-crake is daily many listeners as to his in the. meadows. The countryside now looking very beautiful, and ' there ...

... Fatality at Gronant. glpuni was cast over the village, y evening last by the sad news of; 7agic death of John Thomas Parry,. NATURE NOTE. ine-year-old son of Mrs Parry and ite Mr John Parry. On Monday morningthe birds were I . a pp ea rs the lad, along with ...

... ;Friday evening last by th e sad news of! the tragic death of John Thomas l'arry, a). King's Avenue, khyi (Telephone No 165), NATURE NOTE. ATTENDS PRESTATYN EVERY F RIDAY. ;the nine-year-old son of Mrs Parry and ,tne late Mr John Parry. On Monday mornin* the ...

... Nature Notes. With the advent of dull weather the fresh green of the country side gives way to a darker hue, the earlier herbage decays, to make way for the strong weeds of summer. The wild cloroutis crowns the hedge, meadowsweet appears in the ditch ...

... Nature Notes. Of all the blight autumn berries. a few odd clusters of rose-hips, scattered sparingly along the hedgerows, are all that remain. Do the birds find these less palatable that , they are left till last? Some fruits are eermore popular. For ...

... Nature Notes. Now Winter hides his face away : Spring withdraws the curtain. Shyly she peeps, as though to say '''Does he depart, or does he stay? I will not show my treasures gay Till I am really certain. And although Spring holds her pinafore close ...

... Nature Notes. Nest-building is now taken up in earnest. The wood pigeons make a platform of half-a-dozen twigs on the bough of a pine, and I. • nee a pair of eggs on this, unless they _uould take a fancy to an old rook nest, or chance upon the forsaken ...

... Nature Notes, Thanks to the hot dry weather of the past week,the bulk of the hay crop is safely stacked. The barrenness of the reaped fields gives an autumnal tone to the landscape. but with the aid of copious rains, the bareness will soon be hidden by ...

... Nature Notes. Like Napoleon's return from Elba, so was King Winter's unwelcome re-appearauce at Easter. Rudely he wrested the sceptre from weak-kneed Spring; but his ex-subjects. tired of tyranny, held loyally to their new sovereign. and spread their ...