... NATURE NOTES. The outfits of threshing tackle are now payina their annual visits the farms and their arrival is the signal for great activities. Manj hands 'are needed to run this wonderful machinery, and its musical humming has a very pleasant sound ...

... NATURE NOTES The welcome rain last week has made » won derful difference in the appearance of the try. The pastures are once more beautiful green colour, and the cornfields are rapidly ripening to harvest. One of the most beaut.fu sights and sounds in ...

... NATURE NOTES The excessively wet season has had the usual effect keeping all vegetation very green. There are few autumn tints to ‘be seen anywhere, the exceptions being the horse chestnuts and the beeches. No other tree quite equals the beech for beauty ...

... NATURE NOTES. A beautiful specimen of the bee orchis was sent to me this week, and I informed that quite a number of them are growing on the railway bank near Harbury; the eleven species that grow in this country I have only seen five, all of them have ...

... NATURE NOTES. The confidence and audacity of wild birds and animals when their offspring are young is generally known, but occasionally a special case attracts our attention. Last season pair of magpies built their nest too close to the house to be good ...

... nature notes. To a lover of Nature there is nothing much more interesting than to scull to some quiet spot on the Avon, keep very still and watch. There is a rustle on the bank, and a bright brown water vole comes close to the boat. moorhen brings her ...

... NATURE NOTES. The Cotswold Hills have always been noted for the great variety of wild flowers that grow in their vicinity. The fritillary or snake’s head •have been in blossom for some time past; these flowers are rare, but appear to grow in quantities ...

... NATURE NOTES. Shortly after 3 p.m. on Friday, November 28th, I was in my garden when my attention was drawn to a very vociferous company of what I surmised to be wild ducks travelling high above my head. There must have been hundreds, and they were formed ...

... nature notes. The wood anemone or wind flower is one of the earliest of our Spring flowers, and the woods are now starred with their delicate blossoms, A wood is always enchanting, but especially in the Spring-time: the scent of the peaty soil together ...

... NATURE NOTES. was stated earlier in the are very numerous (this yeai, ana juag » various incidents that have heard of this week iWc is everv reason to believe there are pullet j 'Jit S! a?e*^doot“ sTtlU ? een fl>e his cunning and his arts, and his lenutation ...

... NATURE NOTES If the forest trees are late in donning their autumn garb, our gardens are brilliant with the manv varieties of Michaelmas daisies, roses, dahlias and chrysanthemums. one looks down the gardens surrounding the glorious old mansion at Compton ...

... Nature Notes Pages From a Diary MARCH 15th—We came to river, and we couldn't get across,’' the old song has it. But this case was the Avon Blackdown Mill, not only running in full spate, but also skipping furiously across the narrow road between the two ...