... 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. I have hail one or two letters from corretipondents t'onfinuiiiß the view that it is not lat all uncommon to see tits tho ground, but 1 am surprised hos-r from one w!k> thinks that my are uniust.” ‘•’l have been observer of birrb* for yearn ...

... NATURE NOTES. I liope it is not too late to refer back to the Selborne Society annual meeting in order to note the wonderful little bog garden that one of the members eubibited. In ordinary earthenware round pan about eight inches in diameter two inches ...

... NATURE NOTES, Holiday In the Forest. who dares to splash his way wottest Forest wo had for manay years probaWy find nowadays that has the fairypeopled domain all himself, far as human, beings are concerned. The floor is carpeted with fallen leaves, bright ...

... NATURE NOTES, have reached an alleged critical day of the year that of St. which supposed to control the \veather for six weeks to come. St. Swijlnn’s Day bids fair (if I may use the term in such a connection) to wet. Yesterday was very broody day in ...

... NATURE NOTES. THE GNU. The gnu is one of the most remarkable-looking species of the antelope family, and few people familiar with the animals in the Zoological Gardens would ever guess that they belonged to that family at all ; and it is little wonder ...

... NATURE NOTES. Do Nor Sixa WrEN Fryivo. Birds, with the exception of the skylark and woodlark, do uot sing in their flight. TrHe SMALLEST TRER. The Greenland birch is the smallest tree in the world. It is generally only a few inches high, but its branches ...

... NATURE NOTES. “J. H. G. ” makes modest request for the realms why bird* sing. 1 thought the answer would simple enough, and I wrote that the bird sings for very much the same reasons that actuated our medieval knights when they toasted their ladies. The ...

... NATURE NOTES. mkt. SPIN SILK. It seems startling that a 5,h abseil b. stile to spin silk. but the puma fish no the shores of the Mediterranean eery li•tle of doing it indeed. The many ittle creature has a hue tube attached to the nod of its tongue, and ...

... NATURE NOTES. The writer of this ootturia will be glad to assiistanee in the shape of (or duplicate specimens) of say species of insects flood in the district for the parpoes of this Ilba as date sad leeolity to be la oases, though in the 04111 of species ...

... NATURE NOTES AND NORTHERN DISTRICT LIST. The writer of this column will be glad to receive assistance in the skape of note* of any species of insecta or birds fouud in the northern district for the purpose ot making this list as complete as possible. ...

... NATURE NOTES. Colonel J. S. Talbot kas hunted foxes, and, after the perverse manner of man, has loved foxes all over the world, though his chief know ledge of them has been gained as a preserver and hunter in the Camberley country. Mr. Horace Cox has ...