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Rosa blanda Viburnum americanum 



Meadow Rose American High Bush Cranberry 



Rosa multiflora Viburnum dilatatum 



Japanese Climbing Rose Japanese Bush Cranberry 



Rosa rugosa Viburnum opulus 



Japanese Rose High-bush Cranberry 



PLANTS USED FOR ATTRACTING BIRDS 



It is often advisable, in the making of landscape plantings, to use 

 trees and shrubs which possess ornamental values from a landscape 

 viewpoint, and which also produce fruit that attracts various species of 

 birds. It is sometimes possible to use these plants in large groups, 

 while in other instances it is advisable to use such plants as specimens 

 at intervals in the proposed plantings. This type of plant must be 

 one which produces fruit or seed pods which can be eaten by the birds. 

 In this manner a large number of birds may be kept on many home 

 grounds throughout the different months of the year, especially if 

 plants are selected which attract the birds in these different months. 

 It is much easier to select a group of plants which will attract 

 birds during the winter months when no food is available than it is 

 to choose plants which will attract birds during the summer months 

 when food is plentiful. 



There are many plants, such as sumacs, mulberries, blackberry- 

 lilies, jewel weeds, and hazels, which should be used, occasionally, be- 

 cause their main value is the value of their fruit for the feeding of birds, 

 while they possess a very minor value for ornamental landscape plant- 

 ing. On the other hand, there is a surprisingly large list of plants which 

 are desirable and which are grown commercially in the nursery for use 

 in ordinary landscape planting which do not produce valuable fruit. 



In this list the reader will readily note that different kinds of shrubs 

 produce fruit which attracts different kinds of birds. The owner of an 

 estate should therefore know the birds which generally frequent the 

 locality in question and should use plants producing fruit attractive 

 to these species of bird life. There are many shrubs the fruit of which 

 is either too hard or too acid for birds to eat, such as the following: 

 privets, sweet shrub, and bladder-nut. 



To successfully attract birds a plant must possess certain require- 

 ments such as ability to produce a quantity of edible fruit, to afford 

 shelter from the extreme heat of bright sunny days, shelter from wind, 



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