ii2 HOW TO LIVE IN THE COUNTRY 



If you do not find that some of the seedlings caused 

 by bird planting are novel, just as some of the black- 

 berries and raspberries that are bird sown are worth 

 the transplanting into your garden, then I shall be 

 mistaken. Keep your eyes always wide open for 

 new things. 



In this hunt of yours you will also find something 

 else of very great interest, and that is that many 

 foreign shrubs have become scattered by birds eat- 

 ing the fruit in gardens and voiding the seeds in wild 

 places. In this way I have quite frequently come 

 upon Tartarian honeysuckles, Siberian maples, Eng- 

 lish barberries, rare thorns, European euonymus, 

 with viburnums and lilacs, and I do not doubt that 

 there are many others nestled in the glens which I 

 haunt and waiting for sharper eyes than mine. 



The shrubbery bursts into bloom with the first 

 tempting rays of spring sunshine. First comes the 

 little daphne, and if you care, you may cut great 

 bunches of this shrub, to open a few days earlier in- 

 doors in water. The forsythias almost as soon be- 

 come great masses of gold, floriferous beyond com- 

 pare. The Judas trees may be classed as shrubs, 

 and as such will stand well at the front of all things 

 that blossom. Before a leaf appears every limb and 

 twig is a bouquet of lilac. I wonder that more has 

 not been made of this grand American small tree or 

 bush. 



Then come the Japan quinces and the lilacs, and 

 the procession is well begun. You always regret 



