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... Nature Notes OW IS TlfllE TIME TO 0 amushrooming in the garden.‘l‘he_b%sggerea for mushrooms is Covent Garden,the best time Isnow. Mushroom Production 8 New Row phane uson 0165 528 uson 01 andsee why We are the Champignons! e ...

... NATURE NOTES. J month of silent beauty, for j the flowers are making a uunderful display. but die birds utter scarcely al note. What a mari-elluus thing it is that the loirtis and are at their best at different times of the year, for the all-round naturalist ...

... NATURE NOTES. A Toap’s APPETITE. According to the “Journal” of the Jamaica Agricultural Society, a toad that was captured at nine o'clock at night was proved to have eaten since sunset six cutworms, five millipedes, six snowbugs, nine ants, one weevil ...

... NATURE NOTES Sir, —“ The north wind doth blow', and shall have snow'”; but the robin will not be affected as much as the last three lines of the verse pictur —it will become, perhaps, more domesticated. Starlings will appreciate the chimneytops to the ...

... NATURE NOTES. Fise axp Fazsm Warss, By means of experiments carried on during the past eummer by U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, Professors Scott and White have determined that the gills of fishes are permeable to salts. The experiments consisted in making ...

... NATURE NOTES. SPRING MIGRATION OF BIRDS. The second Report of the Migration Committee appointed by the British Ornithologists' Union has recently been published, and the records of the spring of 1906 prove extremely interesting, while the various maps ...

... NATURE NOTES. BewILDERED BY FoG. Fog has a bewildering effect, not only on human beings, but also on animals, save those who find their way b'{‘ scent. Birds are entirely confused by it. ame gi%eons remain all day motionless and half asleep either just ...

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... NATURE NOTES. REINDEER, BEAVERS, AND WILD CATTLE IN BRITAIN. • Judging from the large quantities of remains of the reindeer that have been unearthed from time to tune in Great Britain, they have been during their existence here very much more numerous ...

... NATURE NOTES QUERIES. , BETTER TIIIII3 FOR THE BIRDS. So often have we had cause to lament the disappearance of some bird or another from places or districts where it had formerly been not uncommon that many of us have almost come to look upon such things ...

... NATURE NOTES Palm,’* the willow catkins are cver>w'here called, came time for its Sunday, early as the day was this year. Every third tree or had broken into gold yesterday, and early humble-bees, as well the workers of the hive, were ing music among ...