10 OCTOBER 1908, Page 17

SIGN OF EXCEPTIONAL WARMTH OF WEATHER.

[To THE ED/TOR or THZ "SPECTATOR.'l SIR,—When walking in the country this week, I picked a wild rose in full bloom from a briar-bush by the wayside. The bush was completely covered with scarlet hips, and I carried home the rose, the little twig bearing bud, blossom, and berry,—all at the same time. The road by. which the briar-bush grows is high and exposed, being seven hundred feet above sea level, and about sixteen miles inland, in the Cumnock district, Ayrshire.—I am, Sir, &c.,

MARY C. CAMPBELL.

8 Park Circus, Ayr, N.B.