. Bird-lore . y quarters better than cramped ones,provided the entrance is small enough to keep out larger birds. In an old appleorchard here behind the foresters house, two and sometimes three boxes of 334 Bird - Lore different sizes hang on the same tree, and two are often occupied at the sametime, according to Herr Schwabe, the head of the von Berlepsch School of BirdProtection. Because of their novelty as well as their remarkable success, the shelterwoodplantations, with the special pruning of stock bushes for nests, was of particularinterest to the writer. The form of these plantations, a
. Bird-lore . y quarters better than cramped ones,provided the entrance is small enough to keep out larger birds. In an old appleorchard here behind the foresters house, two and sometimes three boxes of 334 Bird - Lore different sizes hang on the same tree, and two are often occupied at the sametime, according to Herr Schwabe, the head of the von Berlepsch School of BirdProtection. Because of their novelty as well as their remarkable success, the shelterwoodplantations, with the special pruning of stock bushes for nests, was of particularinterest to the writer. The form of these plantations, and the species of plantsused in them, are carefully described in the book already referred to; but sub-sequent experiments have somewhat extended the list there given of plantssuitable for pruning. Baron von Berlepsch still prefers Cratcegus oxyacantha toany other thorns for this purpose, but he finds that the common privet {Ligus-trum vulgare) is of value as a stock bush in poor soil under considerable shade,. THE ANCESTRAL CASTLE FROM THE PARK; ESTATE OF BARON \i(\ liERLEPSCH One or more pairs of Moorhens nest about the pond and many other birds in the trees and shrubbery, and cavities made in the walls of the castle. and that horse-chestnut {Msculus hippocastanum) also does well under largertrees. The yew {Taxus baccata) is also used in similar situations. As a generalrule, however, the thorn {Cratcegus oxyacantha) is used for this purpose. Afterthe shelterwood is planted, it is allowed to stand three or four, or even fiveyears, and is then cut down, as described in the book. The effect of this is tomake the thorns send up straight shoots from the ground. After two or threeyears, strong shoots here and there in the plantation are cut off just aboveseveral dormant eyes, which, so far as the writer could understand, are to befound in greatest abundance at the point where the growth of about two yearsprevious began. The effect of this pruning is to force out a whorl of new shoo
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