PLANT FRIENDS 



Birds are the best friends that plants have, because they 

 feed upon harmful insects. Watch a wren or a robin feed 

 its young. All day long it passes back and forth, bringing 

 insects to their hungry mouths, 



The bird policeman is the best of protectors for a garden, 

 and if you attract and protect the birds by making bird 

 houses for them, they will pay their rent by eating de- 

 structive insects. 



For a bird house, rough or weather beaten boards or 

 branches of trees may be used. Birds do not mind houses 

 of rustic appearance. In France, houses for small birds 

 are made of woven reeds or willows, like baskets. Directly 

 under the entrance to the house place a stick or a shelf as a 

 perch to light upon. 



The wren likes a house with considerable space below the 

 entrance hole for its bulky nest. The hole should be an 

 inch in diameter. Sparrows sometimes destroy the young 



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