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vulgare), yew (Taxus baccata), Norway spruce (Picea excelsa remonti), 

 and at suitable distances 12 oaks, a number of tall mountain ashes, 

 and a few elders (Sambucus niger) ; in open spaces Sambucus racemosa, 

 a few firs and red cedar. 



On the banks of the millpond, which lies a little higher and which 

 flows into the Leine, and along the other bank of which is a public 

 walk, a row of privet was planted, interspersed with the plants of 

 the groups named above, with the addition of silver firs and birches, 

 in order to protect the wood and make it look pleasing from without. 

 Towards the lower lying bank of the Leine the wood is enclosed by a 

 hedge of two rows of wild roses. The bank itself is planted with 

 various water-plants, pestilence weed (Petasites], flags (Iris pseuda- 

 corus), sweet-scented flags (Acorus calamus), alders (Alnus glutinosa] 

 and osiers. 



As the Leine is very shallow here in summer and autumn the opposite 

 bank is to be fenced in with a wire fence at a width of 6 to 8 yards and 

 suitably planted. The whole bed of the river therefore, for a distance 

 of 280 to 300 yards, is to be added to the reservation, so that the birds 

 can bathe and drink undisturbed in the shallow water. 



A number of trees on the banks are hung with different kinds of 

 Berlepsch boxes. Other arrangements for nesting are piles of turf 

 with openings at the side for wagtails and hedge-sparrows, cavities 

 built of stones for wheatears, etc. 



In the midst of the plantation stands a Hessian food-house, for the 

 construction of which the town supplied the wood free of charge. 

 The wood is surrbunded by water and the path leading to it, which is 

 only 13 feet wide, is closed by an ivy-covered wooden fence with a 

 door. A trap stands ready for vermin. 



We hope that the bird reservation, which has only existed nine 

 months, will prove very useful, and will cause the nightingale, which 

 disappeared years ago, to settle here. 



In addition to the two allotments a number of other fairly large 

 plots were handed over for bird-protection when the land was cut 

 up for small holdings. Among them is a very large ditch about f of 

 a mile in length, as deep as a house, and for the most part over 160 feet 

 wide at the top. Along the bottom flows a brook. The high banks are 

 to be planted like the shelter-woods ; in specially dry barren parts 



