... NATURE NOTES. On dark autumn evenings when nature seems at her lowest ebb we often hear the soft mootural flight-note of the redwing. weep. a the bird travels overhead.. As I cams down William-street large numbers passed, travelling south-west, apparently ...

... NATURE NOTES. Use for Elm Leaves. correspondent writes: Perhaps some of your contributors can state whether they have tried feeding swine and cattle on the leaves of the elm. I have read that these leaves dried in the sun may be stacked for use in seasons ...

... NATURE NOTES. Nuts as Fuel for the Human Machine. Your correspondent's suggestion regarding Chinese nuts a substitute for coal suggests me innumerable uses for nuts that seem to be ignored by the masses. For instance, the Brazil nut which comes to us ...

... NATURE NOTES. The Mildness of the Season. Miss F. B. Mercer, Gaw3Worth, Sidmouth. writes: It may interest your readers to knowthat the woods situated on the high ground not far from home, there is plentiful second crop of whortleberries or bilberries ...

... NATURE NOTES. Middlewich. «2* ,Tn ' and fruit * fro? * day ° r two * m It is bright V», diBe.°T' Provided with *>th. Jt is * climb smooth sur*-of banana« t0 * beCn im P° ' J . ' and S0 1 made for S the !ea ' correspon»f« Blv biT the nelds, looking a all ...

... NATURE NOTES. The Frost and Cheshire Crops. A Holmes Chapel contributor writes: There were eleven degrees of frost on Sunday morning, accompanied by a dense fog, which made the cold much more penetrating, and Monday morning we had degrees. Potatoes that ...

... NATURE NOTES. Madonna Lilies. Drives in the Isle are not given to be exciting. the road to Bhchington all that one could take pleasure in was the fields of barley, locking-rafter thunderstorm —as if they had been the playground of wild elephants: the ...

... NATURE NOTES. When the shades of eve are falling and the crescent moon hanger like a sceptre in the Wm, tern sky, casting a weird light ovor the swabs* woods, the tawny owl comes forth to hunt. ersivascular and noctural in habits, the bird Arad is not ...

... NATURE NOTES. Derelicts. A few row*, all red. still weather the winter. They do not open freely, but a little indoor warmth and little coaxing convert them into relationship with their June kinsfolk, and their scent, slight, is subtle and beautiful. Near ...

... NATURE NOTES, Many erroneous idea. peen) to be prevalent regarding the status, locally, of the crow, Om' rook, end the jackdaw. In the first place it should be distinctly understood that the can ioncrow, so . far as Heywood is concerned, is decidedly ...

... NATURE NOTES The first house martins were seen in the vicinity of Wavertcn Church on May 23rd. but it is understood that a few days previously their presence was suspected in the locality without being positively confirmed. Th swift fairly consistent ...

... NATURE NOTES It Is quit* common to see the bursting bud, on bushes, which have not yet lost all their winter berries. Some few pear trees appeared ready to open out early as the middle of February. Many herbaceous plant* including various kinds of primroses ...