... 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. 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. The quiet thaw that set in at the end of last week continues, and this morning (Wednesday) most of the low-lying ground is clew of snow. The frost, however, is not out yet, and it will be a few days before we hear the cheering voice of the ...

... NATURE NOTES. August is now with us, and although its advent may have brought joy to thousands of holiday makers, it will also recall some sad memories of the past three years of warfare. Nature, however, takes no note of these things but calmly pursues ...

... NATURE NOTES. Wintry weather still prevails, and farmers who are backward with their work, especially ploughing, arc very anxious for a thaw. We may, however, console ourselves with the fact that the long-continued cold weather has been an excellent thing ...

... CARR & CO., Ltd., Carlisle. NATURE NOTES. It is not often that we hear anything but praise of the kestrel. hut the other day I was told about this little falcon chasing and capturing a blackbird. My informant, however, ran to the help of blackie, ...

... [By special permission of the Proprietors of Punch.] NATURE NOTES. There is an old proverb which tells ns that the farmer who goes to look at his corn crop+ in May very often comes weeping away. - This implies that the weaning tin. of the young plant ...

... NATURE NOTES. It appears from the letters I have received that swallows and honsemartins here in beautiful Lakeland are in no hurry re hid us Poewel , this autumn. Mr. Simon Howe, Leeming, tells me that fourteen of these migrants were skimming the surface ...

... NATURE NOTES. As I write this note we are nearing the autumnal equinox, which takes place on Friday, 21st September. On that day the light and heat of the sun strike at the equator, and consequently day and night will again be equal. That is to say, there ...

... POETRY. NATURE NOTES. Thi s seek I have promised some of the buys at the front to answer a few questions and give some details about that noxious animal, the rat. It appears that a few of our soldiers hare had some hot arguments with men who in civil ...

... NATURE NOTES. On Thursday I received by post a owe tin box containing a nice specimen of the grasshopper, or common locust, sent by Lance-Corporal J. Bewley. who is now in Franc,. In civil life this soldier lived with his parents at Low Field, Mtn - land ...

... this very moment the postman has brought me the following letter:— Hill Hoinwm, Calthwaite Dear am much interested in your Nature Notes in the Herald. I notice you mention about the late hatching of swallows. We have a pair in our cowshed hatching their ...