... NATURE NOTES. A Delicate Situation. Er is really a delicate situation. The pond is ours: at least we call it ours, but after all our claim is based on a legal postulate which is no more than a fiction. The bird, of the other part, is s wild bird, a mother ...

... NATURE NOTES. STILL we learn. I have always looked upon sparrows as rather 'plebeian, immoral birds, with no accomplishments in the way of graces of flight or engaging manners. But one evening I was on the top lawn, studying the contours of the oaks ...

... NATURE NOTES. Wa use the word Nature with a light heart, but it is a mysterious sort of ideograph, tremendo)ls and appalling. familiarity witn Arturo does not breed contempt; it breeds amazement and a wondering reverence. And what a phenomenon is man; ...

... NATURE NOTES. WHEN I said I had no use for Lady Pirrie I expected to hear about it, and I have. Before I put in the following interesting letter from Manchester I will give my reasons. Lady Pirrie is a good colour, but the bloom is thin, and the shape ...

... NATURE NOTES. So far the only effect of the ilk our garden is accentuation of the quietness. Ter the rest, the apples go on ripening, and F go on getting the beds ready for spring. And as we have received neither letters nor papers for forty-eight hours ...

... NATURE NOTES. A FEW years' pottering about in garden helps one to realise that in this world's enterprises the joy is in the chase, not in the capture. The roses and phloxes, the poppies and anchusas wo have grown are well enough, but they cannot compare ...

... NATURE NOTES. A FEW years' pottering about in a garden helps one to realise that in this world's enterprises the joy is in the chase, not in the capture. The roses and phloxes, the poppies and anchusas wo have grown are well enough, but they cannot compare ...

... NATURE NOTES. A FEW years' pottering about in a garden helps one to realise that in this world's enterprisce the joy is in the chase, not in the capture. The roses and phloxes, the poppies and anehusas wo have grown are well enough, but they cannot compare ...

... NATURE NOTES. IN Ma Country Month by Month, Lord Lilford says: I very much doubt if the merlin takes mice habitually. Well: I'm not eager to make a bet about it. What quaint chaps some of these naturalists are. I think I will start my first August ...

... NATURE NOTES. THIS is a groat ear- for birds, and ono day last week . l had a bib of hick. First of all, in toe morning, I happened to look out of the loft window, and there, within six feet of we. wee a blackcap. have not seen a blackcap pines 1.0113 ...

... NATURE NOTES. MR. C. BROWN sends me an amusing letter about the hunting hab:ts of the toad. I have never seen a toad catching insects, but I have seen lizards in the West Indies catch ants with a tongue that comes out of the throat about where wo keep ...

... NATURE NOTES. FRIENDS of mine are sometimes pleased to be merry over my reluctance to leave the garden; but why should I kayo it while the summer weather makes it beautiful and interesting? It is a little world in itself. I never weary of watching the ...