... NATURE NOTES. The weather, at the time of writing, :s making amends for the vagaries of the past few weeks, and is gladdening alike the hearts of the Nature lover and the Agriculturist. The shrill call of the curlew is still heard over the moors, but ...

... NATURE NOTES. The weather is favouring the gathering of the hay harvest, and farmers are everywhere taking advantage of it. Vegetation by main roads is covered thickly with dust, but old country lanes are now at their best; roadside grass-plots are veritable ...

... NATURE NOTES. Out Again! To have been practically confined to one's bed for a week as the result of kissing a child who complained (you will perceive that she is very, very young) that no one would do her that favour, is to be shamefully weak. To-day ...

... NATURE NOTES. The Kitten. ■ The rabbit grows, but the kitten still looks like a black puma seen through a telescope used the wrong way round. They siill have boxingmatches, and these are often preceded by a curious exhibition which the kitten obviously ...

... NATURE NOTES. Spray Fluid for Fruit Trees. In reply to a correspondent, the following is suggested in the Field as a caustic alkali solution for spraying fruit trees with - Cau-'tic soda ('0 per cent), lib.; carbonate of potash (80 per cent), lib ...

... NATURE NOTES. The Flowers' Farewell. Flower lovers cannot resist a shuddering regret when they see tlvdr pets dropping before the sudden blasts of winter. Tt # seems but day or two since tho roses were basking an almost summery sunshine and smiling at ...

... NATURE NOTES. Wonderful Pear. According to the American Consul Zanzibar, I the traders of South and Central Africa are earnestly discussing the commercial possibilities of the prickly pear. There seems to be some doubt as whether should be exadioated ...

... NATURE NOTES. Fish and Folklore. Suffolk boatman, writes contributor Country Life, gave a most refreshing explanation of the number conger eels that get washed ashore during the autumn storms. It was that the conger comes to the top to breathe, but ...

... NATURE NOTES, The Intelligent Parrot. The pet parrot King Henry VIII. must have been quite as sagacious as the Brazilian parrot which kept guard on chickens. On the authority of Goldsmith we learn that it used to perch on the river brink outside the Palace ...

... NATURE NOTES. Cuckoo at Sabden. In and around Sabden bird-song is perhaps its best, and, nesting is in its full swing. Meadow pipits, willow warblers, chaffinches, and bullfinches have eggs, and the cuckoo and corncrake has also been heard. In Ribblesdale ...

... NATURE NOTES. Emotions of Birds, Can any one explain how we come by that somewhat Irish phenomenon, the white blackbird? Great bird lovers declare that birds change the colour of their plumage oftener than imagined, and that curious effects are sometimes ...

... NATURE NOTES. Two robins have chosen a strange nesting place at Fletton, Peterborough. Close to a house door a garden watering-can hangs on a nail, in this they have made their home and the hen bird has laid her eggs. Enemies. Signs of life in the garden ...