... NATURE NOTES. ' neighbourhoods where there are many large is a-lmetsf inevitable thai , the countryside should robbed mucli of its -11iieiH.-t- owing th-** accumula-1 tion vast heaps o. waste material aiwl rub, bish, and any .suggestion whn ...

... 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. From the momcDt when the old leaves were down. Nature began her vigorous, unceasing preparation for new growth and life. Each of these warm, sunny days takes her one more stride onward, every htep more joyous and stronger than tho last. ...

... 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. AIR FLOWERS AND EARTH 1-LOWERS. nwulh Home lK>l*ble u> our Uuiwrtl.tm. U>t«- Lcal all, „,d h»t>|iily not of rur» occurrence, that general favourite tint IU-tl Admiral. rath®r of flight la ...

... NATURE NOTES. The problems suggested Mr. Rider Haggard's remarkable case of supposed teleeatny between himself and a dog are-Still discusscd in th© press, and, nutwaJly enough, there are differences opinion to whether such a thing can possibly be. The ...

... NATURE NOTES. For the first time have credible record 'cf the occurrence the noctule bat Scotland. Mr. J. G. Millais that during many years spent in working at our northern fauna he heaird ex.%mple of any large species of bat uorth of the Tweed until ...

... NATURE NOTES. year's ei:d .!.. v.- cii it the! time for r.'tneinh , 1 ■•. 1013 will, I tin.:;. !. reini'inb. i.'d al'vn;-- a yi-ar 1,1 fiun.shini-, and til ■in and -oiit'. ,-aily ami hit. '1 iit-;v» Ls net •ae li, from the !,, of January tin !.. I Oeeeaiber ...

... NATURE NOTES. A correspondent writes to Nature Not-* in to article Guardian Birds- appeared in Harper's Magazine'*, some years ago. The writer of the article states, the i.uthority of Dr. Van that the crane in the habit of carrying small birds across ...