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... 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 ...

... NATURE NOTES. I was right in supposing that Poppyland would be delightful in this splendid weather. They are all saying that it Is the best v.e have had this summer. Long may it continue ! Surely there is part of our land in which the flowers are brighter ...

... NATURE NOTES. The chrysalis which correspondent tend* tie from Lowestoft that of one the butterflies, thoufeh it not a normal typo of one the commoner >nes. In fact, it seems most like the blackveined white is usually supposed to be nearly extinct in ...

... NATURE NOTES. A thorn tree in a front garden on one of the busiest of South London roads has been stripped to very last leaf caterpillars. A second look at the house behind reveals the fact that it is empty. People in rood do not appear to lie very attentive ...

... NATURE NOTES. The Puma and Mao. The American lion regarded a* a much leas interesting: am than the king of the the old world, but if the Kronen told of him Mr. his book, “The Naturalist La Plata, are regarded as the whole truth, ho ha« boom oomsiderablj ...

... Nature Notes. The sixth half-rhlnme of the Natural History of Animals” (The Gresham Publishing Company) has now been published, and eight half-Tolumes will complete the work, an estimate of its value now possible. The rolumea are 7s. each net, and I can ...

... NATURE NOTES. It m«ay be remembered that two yeare ago 1 wrote about some amrUl carpenter bees boring in the wood of a summerhouse and sealing their Jittle galleries not only with a film that looked like waxed silk, but with tiny flint ©tones stuck on ...

... NATURE NOTES. I (night to have reverted last week ( the .while swallow of Knutsford which I said was probably a bird of the year sod would not seen in this country again I have received the following letter tr„ Mr. T. Jenkins. 3d. Erskme road. Colwl™ ...

... NATURE NOTES All Somerset and more is in revolt against my scepticism concerning primroses planted upside down. *’Zoraerzet,” who writes from Plumstead, having left his native county twenty years ago, writes; I had no idea that there was any doubt as ...

... NATURE NOTES. It seems now as though we had got through the bud weather that annually aurprises us the beginning May. We always expect May to uniformly fine, and almost always fails mend till about the middlo the month. The fact ia, of course, that old ...

... NATURE NOTES. Mr. G. W. Bulman has contributed to Knowledge very interesting article on How young birds learn to sing. He says that he one© beard one yellow-hammer very obviously teaching another. The master sang the whole well-known strain A very ...