. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1996 Cranmer-Byng: A Life with Birds 71 showing Jack Miner's success in banding wild geese were shown to scientific and popular gatherings and were received with enthusiasm.''^ Life at 45 Leonard Avenue continued pleasantly when the family moved back into their home after the fire damage was repaired. Their main preoccupa- tion at this time was the garden which had been in the making since April 1913 when Percy rented a team of horses and a scraper to level the ground. In the spring of 1915 he told Swales that he was work- ing hard on the garden before leaving
. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1996 Cranmer-Byng: A Life with Birds 71 showing Jack Miner's success in banding wild geese were shown to scientific and popular gatherings and were received with enthusiasm.''^ Life at 45 Leonard Avenue continued pleasantly when the family moved back into their home after the fire damage was repaired. Their main preoccupa- tion at this time was the garden which had been in the making since April 1913 when Percy rented a team of horses and a scraper to level the ground. In the spring of 1915 he told Swales that he was work- ing hard on the garden before leaving for the field and added: "though what I want a garden for when I am away all summer is beyond me. Neither do 1 know what Mother would do without one but the work is too hard for her ... Last year Mother entered the garden in the city competition and got second prize — with $;"'^ In the autumn Tavemer began making a tennis court on the other lot which they owned but had not yet developed. Also at this time he borrowed a book from Fleming on rock gardens with the comment that this was his ideal form of gar- dening if only he had time to make one.''^ In the spring of 1916 he took a few days' holiday and "worked like a trooper" making a large lily tank in the middle of the lawn. He planted several fragrant water lilies (Nymphaea) and an Egyptian lotus. He did most of the work himself, digging out the soil and wheeling it by barrow onto the other lot. At the same time he continued the existing trellis work the whole length of the yard. The garden, and birds that visited it, gave the Tavemer family a great deal of enjoyment. One of the first things Percy did when the garden was being laid out in the spring of 1913 was to put up a Purple Martin house. In 1915 a pair nested in it, and in April 1916 three pairs returned to the house. The garden survived the winter well because there was a heavy fall of snow in the autumn of 1915 which lasted until the sprin
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