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ness and flavour as cultivated kinds, and birds are 

 good judges of what is nice and what is not ; indeed, 

 one might ahnost charge them with daintiness upon 

 occasion. For instance, I know two tine hawthorn 



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trees growing side by side in Surrey, and during the 

 last two autiunns they have both been laden with 

 fruit. Blackbirds and Thrushes pay great attention 

 to one of them, and it is soon bare, whilst the other is 

 left severely alone, and in the spring of last year it 

 had a lot of old fruit still hanofing- even when the 

 new leaves were on. 



