. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. BIRDS IN THE GARDEN 235 flavor (which our grandmothers found so good in jam maki
. Garden guide, the amateur gardeners' handbook; how to plan, plant and maintain the home grounds, the suburban garden, the city lot. How to grow good vegetables and fruit. How to care for roses and other favorite flowers, hardy plants, trees, shrubs, lawns, porch plants and window boxes. Chapters on garden furniture and accessories, with selected lists of plants, etc. Heavily illustrated with teaching plans and diagrams and reproduced photographes, all made expressly for this great little text book ... Gardening. BIRDS IN THE GARDEN 235 flavor (which our grandmothers found so good in jam making) is pleasant to the robins' palate so, let me repeat, be sure to have a clump- or hedge of Thunbergii, for the cold January and February days when all the other sweeter fruits are gone and the Cedar birds will stay with you till the hosts appear from the South in March, April and May. There are also a few vines which will repay planting for the birds. Notably Actinidias, Lyceum and the berry-beariug Loniceras. All these trees, shrubs and vines are not only useful as bird food but have decorative value as well. Not nearly enough people realize the great beauty of berry-bearers in Winter. The warm oranges, reds, bright blues and cleeir blacks of the different fruits are most attractive and especially if there are evergreens with which to contrast them, their decorative value has only to be seen to be appreciated. The birds wiU find the evergreens, especially the dense, close grow- ing Cedars, Arborvitses and Retinisporas extremely welcome as roojting places on long, cold Winter nights, as I have repeatedly observed, every one of my Cedars having its cozy feathered tenants. I will never forget the night I saw, just at dusk, a Pine-grosbeak creep into one of my Junipers, the only one of that species I have ever seen. Or that other February afternoon when in a httle flock of cedar birds eating Barberries, I suddenly realized that one was twice as large as any of the rest and had
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