Hospitality the Year 'Round 183 



" Of the trees for winter food supply, the gray 

 birch is one of the most attractive. In summer 

 and autumn it is visited by many kinds of birds 

 in search of the insects that it harbors, and in 

 winter it seems a particular favorite with all the 

 smaller finches and sparrows that flock about it. 

 Of the mountain ashes, the European is the finer 

 tree, and very attractive to robins, cedar birds, 

 and the larger finches, and no garden should be 

 without it. The Siberian crab-apple with its 

 great quantities of persistent fruit has proved to 

 be one of the very best. 



"Of the shrubs, our common barberry should 

 always be planted. The black alder with its 

 persistent red berries, is one of our most beau- 

 tiful winter shrubs. The common privet, the 

 fruit of which seems only to be eaten when the 

 supply of other fruits is exhausted, proves very 

 acceptable late in the winter; while the buck- 

 thorn is one of the greatest favorites, and is 

 another of those shrubs that should be found in 

 every plantation. 



SPRING 



TREES 



**Cratesgus Phesnopyrum, Washington thorn. 

 (Introduced.) 



