... NATURE NOTE : J THE HARDEN HEDGE . We use it very badly . Caged bohind iron railings and wiro netting , wo forco it to seo lifo through prison bars . It stands , tho kuifo well ,- bo we cut it into the somblance of a green wall with , a Hat top . 11 stands ...

... NATURE- NOTE .. Kcms nsoii-thb BASS BOCK . The bustl . o . and . activity of returning bitd lif inoreaso daily ¦ diir hbai arrivals being th « pufc ., ¦ which , with customary punctuality ( puj jn « j , . poaraiicoon ~ tho 24 th , -thus completing ...

... NATURE NOTE BIllU LIFE OS TJiE WESTERN FRONT , Some birds seem little perturbed by tho noiso and commotiorrof war . Hc-ro in the vicinity of Arras , in a pond leading into the courtyard o ! an old block of buildings now used as a bath-house for the troops ...

... NATURE NOTE BATS IN SEABCH OF HONEY . • Not so long ago tl ^ browrt rat was by no means commpn in Lower Glenbuchat , in the wilder portion of • Abordcenshire , but in recent years considerable numbers have appeared in the district aud havo infested the ...

... NATURE NOTE ' . ¦ fiAlUBE UN THE WbHJLiCi 1 UUM , The mild' weather of tho early spring has given place to cold , bleak days , and the birds aro feeling it acutely . Their singing is very intermittent , and at times almost despondent . Tho blackbird ...

... NATURE NOTE SEED PEKSIONEBS . We get a great deal of pleasure every winter from feeding tho birds . Food tables are affixed for the purpose to the . window sills , and one ot two of our pensioners often alight on them before tho hand that tends them has ...

... 4 HOLIDAY NATURE NOTE. Everywhere our cornfields give promise of a golden haryest (writes Mr. Tom Gloster, of Walsall). The wheat, inter- spersed here and there with poppies and marguerites, is rapidly ripening, an ere long the land-girls will be busy ...

... A NATURE NOTE. Tire progress of Spring is marked just now in this district the bursting into bloom of many of -the early flowering trees and shrubs. Conspicuous _ these _is the almond, which with its beautiful pink flowers brightens many an otherwise ...

... NATURE NOTE FOR THE WEEK. When the drought ends in gentle rain of any length the atmosphere takes on at first a turgidity which blots out the landscape even when the rain has ceased —due no doubt to condensation of moisture rising from the earth again ...

... NATURE NOTE FROM THE FRONT. I have just received a astute note from a position close behind the firing -line, which in ig it interest some your renders, writes a correspondent of 'lle Boy's Own Paper. Corporal R. Moulder, attai9ied to the 2nd Army Field ...

... A NATURE NOTE. The woods are slowly waking from their winter sleep, and the hazel trees have already hung out their catkins, wdiich add a bright and effective charm to the scheme early Spring’s decoration. Beneath, just peering from the massed brown leaves ...

... A NATURE NOTE. Sir, —Not a hundred miles from Walsall between the Delves and Barr, is a small fir plantation singularly rich in bird-life. Here I have found some of our rarest specimens in ornithology. I have frequently seen magpies, and even sparrowhawks ...