... NATURE NOTES. DICKY BIRD SOCIETY. Through the eflorce of an Ambleslie gentleman the following additional names have been added r the Big Book of this Sleety :—Jahn Bows. Fred Gardner, Gerald tree. John Came. Charles Shrike, Charles K. Marshall, %Heed ...

... 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 ...

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... NATURE NOTES. AM INSECT PLAGUE. As a result of the excessive wet weather of last year we are destined to suffer a plague of gnats. Midges and such-like insects spend the earlier stages of their lives in the water; and, as a general rule, they do not multiply ...

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... 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 IF THE local moors do not abound in bird life at this time of year, at least the Pennine reservoir. are of some attraction. Duck of a variet:,. of species are attracted to these high waters. but without doubt the most welcome Ail tor in our ...

... 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 ...

... NATURE NOTES. Horse Chestnuts. The horse-chestnut is very beautiful from the time when its sticky leaf-buds begin to open until it blooms. But there comes that dreadful day when you are first conscious that the summer on the wane, and then you happen ...

... NATURE NOTES For some reason there was a very evident absence ol many of our common residentiary species ol birds and about the garden during December, and probably the only sound to oe heard would that the robin or the startled call of a blackbird if ...

... Nature Notes Although we Ore little more than l'a!f-way through the winter, ',steely • day passes ii 'thine beano ' . tidings of the I'olllllg spring. Hold soot reign almost, in full tong, and for such a seedo bind his voiee is wieekirfully loud and clear ...