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... NATURE NOTES. - - _ A fine specimen of the aloe tree is now (observes the Daily Graphk) in full bloom in Miss Gibson's garden, Hill House, Saffron Walden. Recently a fisherman killed on the Norfolk mast a specimen of the rare yellow Siberian warbler ...
... NATURE NOTES. Cool as a encumber is not merely a popular saying, but a scientific fact, the temperatnre of that vegetable always being a degree below that of the surrounding atmosphere. ...
... NATURE NOTES. CANNOT CHANOI COLOUR. • When a chameleon is blindfolded, it loses all power of changing its colour, and it. entire body remains of a uniform tint. ...
... NATURE NOTES* Tin INIONTING•LwI SONG. nightingale has sixteen diffesset beginning. and endings when it sings„ with many intermediate notes, other -birds have but four or five changes. • BRILLIANT KT , Glowworms become more brilliant when a storm is imminent ...
... NATURE NOTES. PUNTS AND SUICIDE. Do plants ever commit suicide? The ( County Gentleman makes a suggestion of the kind in the case of some of the clematises. You can (it says) plant a clematis which does admirably for a 'few months ° even for a few ...
... NATURE NOTES. TAPPING FOR SAP. ludia-rot.i)er trees which are tapped every other day continuo to yield sap for more than twenty yesys; and it is a curious fact that the oldest and most frequently-tapped trees produce the richest sap. AN AMBITIOUS BUSH ...
... NATURE NOTES, 4 WONDERFUL PLANT. A remarkable fact connected with the rife plant is its almost entire immunity from the at. tacks of insects, and from those aiseases which infect the cereals and other vegetable growths, as also Nit it supplies a wholesome ...
... NATURE NOTES. TNE BARN OWL. A prominent position in popular superstition has been held by this bird from time immemorial ; for the white, or, as it is more generally termed, the barn, owl, is possessed of a peen. liar screech, which, being uttered ...
... NATURE NOTES. THE USEFUL LAP WINE. No bird is braoloial to oullivalsr• lapwing. destllla likowli Z bes ilis and hem et vagina bummer moo, 1 turnips, Moot, at Misr kiwis its it lora fa tin mons it kr 4 basin ormilt altar Oa Mode labile say fildulet their ...
... NATURE 'NOTES. LOST SALMON. Four of the young salmon which were turned into the Thames last summer and mysteriously disappeared, have been captured near the weir at Teddington by an angler who was fishing for gudgelm. ...
... NATURE NOTES. FINLD iLION AND SNAIL& In a run of mice, only ten yards long, in a quarry near Lincoln, there have been discovered the shells of 3,000 snails which the had devoured. ...
... NATURE NOTES. - • iimipmem. 8000 PIOE M 8 LONG FLIGHT, , Over I pigeons dist/etched from Man. cheater recently by/pais/ trains to Southampton, for St. Maio, where they will be released. The distance of the is 420 Mks. • THE DISAPPEARING 80414; Mr ...