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NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES. TO ATTRACT 81E8. If you want. the bees to visit your gartlen--and if you know anything of plant life, you will be aware that they are a necessity—invite them by having plants which bear blue blossoms. According to Lord Avebury, they manifest ...

Published: Saturday 04 June 1904
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 53 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES. lILBERRIEB. A marked feature of the trade of the weak is the fruit markets of the Midlands hes been the bilberry boom. As there is asbortage in the Baglush black currant crop the retail fruiterers bup up the cheap foreign bilberries reedily ...

Published: Saturday 01 August 1903
Newspaper: English Lakes Visitor
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 74 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES. this week Dr. Sprott, Appleby, writes me as follows: I was much interested in reading your notes which appeared in last week's 'Herald,' quoting the communication from your Glenridding correspondent about locks of birth: observed feeding ...

Published: Saturday 03 March 1917
Newspaper: Cumberland & Westmorland Herald
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 251 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES. In answer to many inquiries about the big thrushes that are now to he seen flying about among tho rooks and starlings, I may state that them conspicuous birds are tel and redwings. The firldfares are winter visitors to our shores, and often ...

Published: Saturday 22 April 1916
Newspaper: Cumberland & Westmorland Herald
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 518 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES. This week I have to record the departure rem Penrith of the swifts, or derdins, herb hare fur the past three months been tar wrleome guests. There are few aigrants that do more. good in the wort I. malt. I.a noise about it, than live le‘ilins ...

Published: Saturday 18 August 1917
Newspaper: Cumberland & Westmorland Herald
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 233 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Nature Notes

... Nature Notes. 71waerompanying photograph shows •• young schoolboy. named J. Watson. son of Mr. Adam WaMon. signalmen. Monroe , . Mahon. end his tame pigeon. For • long time thispigerm hes follooncl the hoy to gild from School, until it ho. attrarud the ...

Published: Saturday 10 May 1913
Newspaper: Cumberland & Westmorland Herald
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 451 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Nature Notes

... Nature Notes. . touch of wrote that thi, ay. k to ',full the %alit. One after another. are WI. and. whether al. orater it or not. the beautiful ',v. a role the .. Silt 1e.,. our 'Jo u,. on or about the 20th Await. but I hail fain hoped that the iiitta ...

Published: Saturday 29 August 1914
Newspaper: Cumberland & Westmorland Herald
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 309 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

NATURE: NOTES

... NATURE: NOTES. This week an observer, Mr. Hodgson Harrison. writing to ate from the Barnard Castle district, guys: As I always read your notes with pleasure in the Herald every week, I thought it would be of interest to you to knon that as I was out ...

Published: Saturday 17 November 1917
Newspaper: Cumberland & Westmorland Herald
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 314 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES. This week I have had the following interesting letter from a lady reader who lives at the Hall Farm, Morland: I always read your notes •in the Herald with enjoyment, and 1 would like you to give me some information on the following mysterious ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1917
Newspaper: Cumberland & Westmorland Herald
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 722 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES. HOOKING AN The Kirkcudbrightshire Adevruser reports that while angling the ather . day on the Fleet, at Gatehouse, lfr, R.,H. itacactom, Liverpool, bad a singular experience, in' which' he bttke Ms rod and lost his strange fish. Gliding ...

Published: Saturday 26 September 1903
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 572 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES THE ABBOTBSURY SWANS. There are more than a thousand swans at Abbotabury, living • perfectly natural life, and none of them pinioned. The result is (says the County Gentleman ) that the visitor sees, what it is not possible to see on the ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1905
Newspaper: Wigton Advertiser
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 367 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NATURE NOTES

... NATURE NOTES. A WHITE WATER MEN. A whit* varieties of the water-bra, Wed at Stour, Dorset, lestisesitlt, hue bow reoeired at the Natural History Museu South Heosingtoa. MARVELLOUS CHRYSANTHEMUM. A chrysanthemum exhibited at the World's Fair Bower show ...

Published: Saturday 03 December 1904
Newspaper: English Lakes Visitor
County: Cumberland, England
Type: Article | Words: 99 | Page: 3 | Tags: none