ANOTHER HARDY GARDEN BOOK 



be framed in green. The ivy can be pro- 

 tected in Winter by a covering of leaves and 

 some evergreen branches. In the pool are 

 several varieties of fish, among them gold- 

 fish, which not only add to its beauty, but 

 devour the larvae of the mosquitoes which 

 otherwise might breed in the fresh water. 



Many birds nest in the gardens: black- 

 birds, robins, gray wrens, the faithful phoebe 

 birds, who return year after year to the 

 same nesting place, and raise two families 

 every season; orioles, whose nests hang from 

 the branches of the tallest trees; yellow 

 birds; meadow larks; humming-birds innu- 

 merable, darting from flower to flower with 

 lightning-like rapidity; black and white 

 woodpeckers with scarlet heads, which live 

 in the tall old locusts and share these trees 

 with the blue- jays, which are always at 

 enmity with the robins and also fight the 

 red squirrels to preserve nests and babies. 

 Last year a pair of quail nested among a 

 mass of Phlox, and later went away to the 

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