... NATURE NOTES. THE RETURN OF THE HOUSE MARTINS. With a favourable change of wind Nature's aspect has completely altered. Last week, we were lamenting the deaths of many swallows, which had come so far from only to die of hardship English s This week have ...

... 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. 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. 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. Meals for Birds. - some the readers of nature notes may be able to say whether or not it harmful give birds breadcrumbs during the frost? Some people declare that it is. and that suoh birds thrushes require chopped suet or scraps of meat ...

... NATURE NOTES. Hullard Park. May I suggest to those of ycur readers interested flower culture that they should pay casual visit to Huliard Park, where, I venture to think, they will ree what will fully Tepay them for their walk. The little unpretentious ...

... NATURE NOTES. The Occultation of Mara. When Mars was occulted the other morning, at time when the air was raw and keen, with icicles hanging from the observatory, some amount of courage and endurance was required in the person who saw the ruddy planet ...

... NATURE NOTES. Cheshire Oats. Oats as a crop, writes a Holmes Chapel contributor, have ripened very quickly, and farmers are busilj engaged in cutting it. The grain ha? fed up much better than short time since was expected. Indications are prevalent all ...

... NATURE NOTES. Plea for Wild Birds. Winter with its frost and snow will soon here; and, as usual, our dumb friends will suffer, especially our little songsters. Let us not forget to feed them daily. BIRD LOVER. Bananas and their Uses- It. is lamentable ...

... NATURE NOTES. Deceitful Flowers and Insects. One can have no resource but believe that duplicity part and parcel of the great system of the genius the genus as Schopenhauer would say. The desire not only for life but continual life is supreme, and its ...