How to Attract the Birds 



the contented bees buzzing about the latter shorter 

 tubed group and then the ruby-throat poised in 

 ecstasy before the long-tubed cardinal flowers in 

 September, if you would distinguish their true 

 motives. 



How delighted must the humming-bird have 

 been when we first added to our gardens and his 

 menu his favourite salvias, cannas, nasturtiums, 

 balsams, scarlet runner, fuschias, pelargoniums and 

 gladioli, among many other welcome plants imported 

 from warmer climes ! These, while unnatural, un- 

 expected rivals to wild flowers which undertook to 

 feed him, earn our threefold gratitude for bringing 

 him to our very doors, causing his numbers to 

 increase and prolonging his stay until frost blackens 

 the once gay garden beds. Not till then does he 

 leave them for the tropics. 



Young birds in the nest 

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