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urged to bring flowers to the library and whenever they do so, 

 and correctly identify the flowers they bring, their names have 

 been entered on "The Roll of Honor." Even boys and girls of 

 twelve and fourteen have entered the contest. 



When the contest closes, five dollars worth of books will be 

 awarded as prizes, the money for the books having been donated 

 by the Women's Home Garden Club. In addition to these prizes 

 every child who had entered the contest will receive a package of 

 flower seeds. 



Do You Know? 



Mary Ellis 



Buffalo, N. Y. 



Do you know that the late fall is the time to start a wild flower 

 box' Get hapatica plants, the bloodroots, the trilliums, Jack-in- 

 the-pulpits, and plant them in your box. Leave it out of doors 

 in some sheltered corner, cover well with leaves and leave it 

 until the month of February when we long for the signs of Spring. 

 Bring it in and watch things grow. Plenty of water is necessary. 

 Strange as it may seem, wild flowers will not grow and blossom 

 well until they have been in frozen ground. 



Do you know that it is very interesting to have a puzzle box? 

 While planning for the wild flower box, start another by putting 

 in earth from rich woods, digging down far enough to get roots 

 and bulbs and then see what comes up. It is quite exciting. 

 This box must be hidden away like the other of course. 



Do you know that branches of the sumac, with their bunches of 

 berries, hung up about a pole or nailed to a bird house or trunk 

 of a tree will bring the chickadees, the nuthatches and the kinglets? 



Do you know that now is the time to be making the bird houses 

 and to be getting them up so that they will have a chance to become 

 weathered and become a part of the landscape so that the birds 

 will not be afraid of them? 



Do you know that now is the time to form a Junior Audubon 

 Society' By getting tjhe children acquainted with our winter 

 birds we may be able to save many of our feathered friends from 

 starving to death in the awful blizzards which are bound to come. 



