NATURE NOTES.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20254, 24 July 1937, Page 21 (Supplement)

NATURE NOTES.

A HANDSOME PLANT. A handsome foliage plant may h« grown from the tuft at the top or a pineapple lake the tuft away with a proportion of the flesh of the fruit attaehed and pot It In rich soil, keeping It In a warm room and watering tt as required. In a short while the tuft will root like an ordinary cutting and develop Into a fine plant, making a handsome ornament —Mary McDonnell (12)^ THE SILVER EYE. The sliver ere or white eye. as It is more commonly know, was first noticed In New Zealand In 1865. In the winter when the grubs and worms, etc., are in the ground, these small birds will come around the houses and eagerly alight on scraps of suet, porridge. or crumbs, which may be lying about. The white eye lightens the wintry dullness by Its colouring. Its continuous merry whistlings and twittering! and Its amusing antics as It scrambles, bickers and quarrels over small particles of food. —Joyce Harris (IS). THE GREV KIWI. This bird frequents the woods and being nocturnal in Its habits is found In prostrate hollow logs, natural holes tn caverns, among the roots of large trees, and cfcrts and fissure it, the ror|c« in* ••>rg is long and elliptical. origluall\ white, but becomes much stained during incubation. Being fairly plentiful and accessible during the early years of Nevr Zealand colonisation. It was considered excellent eating but the march of time has drven the fmv (if any) remaining specimens weU into the fastness of tha Southern JJP4, —AMata U’AX&M iMJ, i