... NATURE NOTES. On the rough, broken hill-sides tho Vipers' Bugloss flames in gorgeous living sheets of deep ceruirnu blue. This wilding, which never fails attract n. atones for the scarcity limestone district* the foxglove, wliieh plant it is, in pictorial ...

... Nature Notes. FAULE OF THE LEAFE. The time of the ingnt'nering fruit and grain now upon us, and already Midas hand of autumn trai.umuts3 tho hem of into gold. Seen from dittoJiea the wowllands are a rich deep green, but nearer casociatiou shows that ...

... NATURE NOTES. EARLY BLOSSOMS. I How impatiently watch our flower gardens at*this time of the year, and how we long te *ce our houses full of bloom again. There arc hardly any blossoms out, but that is not altogether a good reason why we should not make ...

... NATURE NOTES. Before April ended the season swung round from the June-like warmth and sweetness it bad assumed into tbe comparative asperity of late March. A brisk north-easter was the reason, and some of us began to entertain kindly, perhaps anxious ...

... NATURE NOTES. 1 So the cuckoo is come with the southrvly j winds in good time, as tho children say, *to cat the dirt. This year, as is proper, . the long grey bird finds nil in readiu j.ss, for the large fat caterpillars of the drinker moth that for ...

... Nature Notes. ATR FLOWERS AND EARTII FLOWERS. The month of August sees some notable additions to our list of B uttertlies. Love- liest of them all, perhaps, and yet happily not of rare occurrence, is that general favourite the Red Admiral. Being rather ...

... NATURE NOTES. There are few more delightful and at the' same time more luxuriously prolific haunts the lover of wild flowers than the Isborne Valley, approached way of Bala's Knapp. Valerian, loosestrifes (parple and yellow), meadow-sweet, great-reed ...

... NATURE NOTES. AN ANCIENT LOCAL INDUSTRY. few mile 6 from Cheltenham there carried an industry which in its methods can hardly have changed during hundreds of years—the industry the cultivation the Fuller's Teasel. one in the old days could beat the G ...

... NATURE NOTES. o HILLSIDE BLOOMS. Tlie open hillside between Le-khampton and Sandy-lane, two hours before the going down the sun, and a prime mellow August day. A light breere our cheeks, tut high up the coursers the loulh-wwit a.*e riding hard, their ...

... Nature Notes. The climax in Butterfly affairs now leached, fifty-two of the sixty-seven British speoies being the wing ait one time or another—and, it said, one place another—during August. From weli-authienticoted list I that 58 of G7 Britishers have ...

... Nature Notes. There can no evading the fact: November become synonymous wit.li dreariness and desolation; and fogs and heavy vapours, sullen grey skies, and muddy ways are its characteristics. wind in the trees wails in dreary descent wit-li note that ...

... Nature Notes. AMONG THE BUTTERFLIES. One day towards tlic end of last month there flashed over the hedge in Sandy-lane gorgeous piece of mosaic. I rubbed my eyes and looked again. In the spirit of Mark Twain's blue jay, I said to myself It looks like ...