... NATURE NOTES. Magpies. It always strikes wonder that have ! any magpies left, for they are so relentlessly per- j secuted. The magpie is a handsome bird at close quarters, but withal a thief. It delights to feed On the eggs of smaller birds, hence it ...

... NATURE NOTES. Some Nettles and a Moral. When you stretch out your hands clutch the flowers that greet you by the wayside it is often your lot be stung nettles. You smart: you growl. Yet, what soothing unction you obtain when you take the trouble to look ...

... NATURE NOTES. The Coming Spring. The older naturalists would probably have had good deal to say about such bright and hopeful weather as we have lately experienced. But nowadays we are apt to take these signs of the regeneration of the year as something ...

... NATURE NOTES. Use for Elm Leaves. correspondent writes: Perhaps some of your contributors can state whether they have tried feeding swine and cattle on the leaves of the elm. I have read that these leaves dried in the sun may be stacked for use in seasons ...

... NATURE NOTES. Nuts as Fuel for the Human Machine. Your correspondent's suggestion regarding Chinese nuts a substitute for coal suggests me innumerable uses for nuts that seem to be ignored by the masses. For instance, the Brazil nut which comes to us ...

... NATURE NOTES. The Mildness of the Season. Miss F. B. Mercer, Gaw3Worth, Sidmouth. writes: It may interest your readers to knowthat the woods situated on the high ground not far from home, there is plentiful second crop of whortleberries or bilberries ...

... NATURE NOTES. Middlewich. «2* ,Tn ' and fruit * fro? * day ° r two * m It is bright V», diBe.°T' Provided with *>th. Jt is * climb smooth sur*-of banana« t0 * beCn im P° ' J . ' and S0 1 made for S the !ea ' correspon»f« Blv biT the nelds, looking a all ...

... NATURE NOTES. The Frost and Cheshire Crops. A Holmes Chapel contributor writes: There were eleven degrees of frost on Sunday morning, accompanied by a dense fog, which made the cold much more penetrating, and Monday morning we had degrees. Potatoes that ...

... NATURE NOTES. Madonna Lilies. Drives in the Isle are not given to be exciting. the road to Bhchington all that one could take pleasure in was the fields of barley, locking-rafter thunderstorm —as if they had been the playground of wild elephants: the ...

... NATURE NOTES. Derelicts. A few row*, all red. still weather the winter. They do not open freely, but a little indoor warmth and little coaxing convert them into relationship with their June kinsfolk, and their scent, slight, is subtle and beautiful. Near ...

... NATURE NOTES. There ono rose tree in the garden which a perennial trial its owner. Tho flowers it hears are very well fitted for what the late Mr. R. D. Blackniora called * hutton-holo garnishing purposes, and is too prolific. But it is altogether too ...

... NATURE NOTES. Local Bird-Life. strolling near (be upper reaches the Derwent the other day a nanty bird lonem wteae pb-ased to see a number of I hwk-beaded gulls. Though not really rare bi«4, liie black-headed always interesting one when seen far away ...