PLANTING FOR BIRDS 
AND BEAUTY 
HERE is a strong affinity between 
flower lovers and bird lovers. He who 
watches eagerly for the first bloom of 
crocus or of anemone in the spring, 
looks with equal eagerness for the 
first flash of bluebird’s wing or trill 
of robin's love song. Birds and flow- 
ers and sunshine are So closely associ- 
ated that they can never be separated. 
A flower garden without bird life is an incomplete joy. 
The following list then, is to assist bird lovers and 
flower lovers so that they may best combine their pleas- 
ures; so that when they plant a flower, it will be not for 
their gratification only, but also for the benefit of the 
birds. Indiscriminate planting may be changed into spec= 
ialized planting that shall have for its object the attrac- 
tion and feeding of birds: and no part of the beauty of 
shrubs or flowers will be sacrificed. 
When the thrushes and chickadees sing their thanks 
for the wood-bine, or whole hosts of birds praise your 
generosity in planting a mulberry tree for them, the bird 
and flower lover will be repaid for the fore-thought and 
care that provided shrubs and plants which not only have 
beauty of foliage, fruit and bloom, but give the birds a 
feast for many days. 
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