... 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 ...

... NATURE NOTES. The Coo *' Notes of the Birds. The allusion the other day to the cooing pigeon brought to my mind what consider, though possibly erroneously, a sound rarely heard mean the coo of a starling. the old garden of which I often write, some ...

... NATURE NOTES. SUMMER SEPTEMBER. Pleasures seem best when are about lose them; and every' smoker will tell you that the last pipe at bedtime has fragrance all its own the last smiles Summer in September seem sweeter thin all that have gouc before; and ...

... NATURE NOTES. ;,- - «nder Sun-1,1 H 'hil t evidence I from V^ otes of I for** m tin ? - The C> v IT* the «>l*» rains ,lrinth unlocking a I > ...

... NATURE NOTES. The Holly Season. Lurry loads of shining evergreens passing along the streets till that the holly season is in full swing. And how ruddy are the boughs with berries this year! We wonder, when looking m the shrubberies and parklands, how ...

... NATURE NOTES. THE LANGUAGE OP BIRDS. Lees attention is paid to the language than to any other branch of ornithology, perhaps because you cannot put it stuffed into glass case, or preserve spirits for mnseura purposes. Yet far mere important, as an aid ...

... NATURE NOTES. An Ornamental Winter Flower. The winter jasmine (jasmine nudiflorum) is one of the most useful flowering plants one can have for the garden. Unlike'our better-known plants, it reserves its bloom for winter, the time when it may rely on being ...

... NATURE NOTES. The Fuchsia. is curious to note how little decorative use is made the fuchsia, and how seldom it is seen in anything but a comparatively wild state. Some time ago, in Queen Victoria's reign, people took great pains with their fuchsias, and ...

... NATURE NOTES. Beneficent Frost. The sharp frost of the last week, writes a Holmes Chapel contributor, will do great deal of good in checking premature growth. Several kinds plants, notably roses, were making too much growth for the time of year. On the ...

... NATURE NOTES. Wonderful Effects. Lifting the window in the dense noon darkness, I looked out and saw picture Whistler would have rejoiced in. The fog hung like an opaque, smoky pall almost to the roofs, but the smoke was the smoke of a fire blushing and ...