AN EXUBERANT SEASON.
We are experiencing a season of unusual exuberance in every sort of direction. It is marvellously floriferous. The flowers have now set into fruit that promises many bumper crops. But the pests have appeared in almost equal ratio with the fruit. Never did I see quite so many caterpillars of so many varieties, or watch the birds quite so busily engaged in reducing the numbers. The hay that begins to fall this week is perhaps too floriferous, but it is singularly lush ; and the brilliance of the green is altogether Irish, " Haysel"—a good,old word now quite disregarded—should see the founding of some high and mighty stacks, if the sun is at all favourable. A queer addition to the productivity of the year is the appearance of a great quantity of puff-ball and mush- rooms long before their due date.
W. BEACH- THOMAS.
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