... NATURE NOTES. The seasons, like the ever-rolling tides, are continually on the move. To-day (Monday), as I write this note, Spring, with all its joys and sorrows, has once more come and gone. The longest day is passed, and that enchanting time of the ...

... NATURE NOTES. During the past week swallows have bee.. wen in the Penrith district almost every day. In the year 1911 swallows were seen in the neithbonrhood up to the middle of November. As these late records are all well authenticated, they may be of ...

... NATURE NOTES. APPLEB IN ABUNDANCE. Everybody is agreed that this is one of the meet wonderful years for apples ever knout!, and there is no reason to doubt the stories which come from all quarters of trees have actually more apples than leaves upon them ...

... Nature Notes. Kan. the rh•nce in the went her last Saha, day have had some very unsratinnii days --rlay• of told rhilly fonds and frosty nights. This oar of the ponaltens pay for rain M this mamma of the ear yin OW northern climate. awl ono. node illustistion ...

... NATURE NOTES• Local Farmer's Encounter with a Falcon. Now and again • he: stories of awn having cmintent a ith bussank. uwl*, and hawk*, but this. milli are Mum through fear or sematioaal enterprise greatly exaggerated. Tb is week n very , nine man ...

... NATURE NOTES. BY HILDERIC FRIEND. Snow in harvest! One has read of such a thing, but it is not every year that we experience the sight. Yet we have had so many surprises d tirin 4 . the past twelvemonth, that one or two additional abnormalities will create ...

... NATURE NOTES. The arrival of the nightjar? which I recorded in last week's notes, vory nearly concludes the list of spring migrants. As a rule, it is well into summer before this visitant puts in an appearance, we in sonic seasons I never got a record ...

... NATURE NOTES. We have now, as I write, about six days of April left, and, although the weather is improving, the season must of necessity be backward. In the woods and groves the trees still wear their winter drew, bet along the highways and byways the ...

... Nature Notes. I ee hate n,eive.l wk from a Keswick reader a small boa, accompanied by the following kader:— Sir.—Heing always an admirer of your Nature notes, I thought you sronkt lie interested in the contente of this small brio. The kg belong to a ...

... NATURE NOTES. The first mil of hay, says the old proverb, cuckoo away. This well-known , like a great many more of the old world observations, show. a good deal of knowleiLw of the migratory habits of this Bohemian among birds. AA a rule the first week ...

... NATURE NOTES. March. proverbially speaking, time in like a lion ; whether, according to the old saying, it will go out like • lamb, remaina to be seen. do far, this tickle month has been in some of her bitter moods, and to those who are not strong ...

... NATURE NOTES. QUEER FRUIT. The Karns orange of Upper India yields two kinds of fruit the same branch, the regular crop of smooth oranges, ripe at the end of the dry season, and the after-crop of coarse-skinned oranges, ripe at the end of the rainy season ...