... A Nature Note The increasing light and (() moderate temperatures have the larches that gleam of thin gold precedes their rosy plumelets “A. T. J.”). The whippy wands . birches wear ruddier glow and 1 misty blue-purple which spreads over alder tops like ...

... A Nature Note The thrifty housewife will have welcome ally in the (says A. T. J .”), for this famili row fruit, unusually abundant first-rate quality , not only costs but, being very sweet, it ,[ “jammed” witli comparatively the food controller’s sugar ...

... A Nature Note The rove-beetle, have caused the death ot have been the indirect al,h-bite) but it is not actua • , (writes “A. T. J”). protection upon a ol liquid which it squirts which irritates it, and terribly threatening its hinder end. Hence the popular ...

... A Nature Note In spite of a long pc . 1 bitter weather the hazel catk ! not much behind their usu B (says “A. T. J.”). In woodl 8 ® spinney, as along the higb-d lane, these pale primrose*! lamb’s tails, adangle cinnamon twigs, are the verJ of spring as ...

... A Nature Note There is no more characteristic of the Welsh hills at this season the dwarf furze (says “A. T. some places it may creep down level, but its home is the breezy sheep-walks where, in close-c mats and hummocks, it gilds p. between each drift ...

... A Nature Note Like the wasps and hornet the cater* pillar of the cinnabar moth carries livery of warning (writes “A. T. J.)- That, at all events, is the only explana* tion we have to offer for the creature’ vivid bands of orange and jet whicb contrast ...

... A Nature Note Oak woods and alder have their winter grey (says A. T. Jamong them now stand out the clearly those pillars of lustrous with which the ivy, our only nativ® green climber, asserts its prerog^. 1 * the winter landscape. And 1 . ( variable plant ...

... A Nature Note The meadow geranium comes with ! harebell to announce the passing summer (writes “A. T. J,’’). seldom challenge one another with azure-purple, for while the craned’ haunts the deeper loams, the blueby* . are fonder of dry banks and heal ...

... A Nature Note i( Frost a great silencer (says “A.T.J.”). Even the mountain stream sinks to a softer note, for, though ice-free in the valley, on the heights its sources are so sealed that its waters quickly fall in volume. Hunger, the bird’s most dreaded ...

... A Nature Note Though it was cold exiough a few ago (writes A. T. J.) this did not quefl' the ardour of the brave and light-heart* dipper. Indeed, rather than being 8 down the wintry weather, tl' irrepressible optimist was as blithe he is in May. Above ...

... A Nature Note War-time means less game-keeping (says “A. T. J.”)’ the old question of the economic of stoats and weasels has once ** become acute. But though it ' difficult to persuade the gained, that in persecuting these fierce hunters he is acting ...

... A Nature Note The old winter-sweet which for centuries has been cherished as a garden favourite seems to have been entirely eclipsed by the Chinese witch-hazel (writes ‘“A. T. J/’). Nor-is this surprising, for winter-sweet had little more than fragrance ...