Photograph by Thomas E. Marr and Son 
A JUNCO VISITING AN AUDUBON FOOD-HOUSE 
“The Audubon food-house has been much used on this side of the water and is most 
satisfactory. 
It consists of a square hip roof, with vertical glass sides suspended beneath 
and open at the bottom, the whole supported on a central rustic cedar post, encircled with 
food trays beneath the roof. 
The glass sides protect the food trays from the weather and 
at the same time admit light and allow of easy observation. 
These, when placed among the 
shrubbery about one’s house, prove most attractive” (see page 169). 
its berries toward the winter supply of 
food. 
There is a huge hill at the edge of the 
sand dunes at Ipswich, Mass., swept by 
all the storms that come in from over the 
ocean, which years ago was as bare as a 
billiard ball, but upon one side of which 
the enterprising owner set out a large 
plantation of evergreens. Today that 
hillside is a Mecca for the birds from 
miles around, and noted among the bird 
lovers of the region for its varying bird 
life both winter and summer. 
From an artistic standpoint, also, the 
use of evergreens is to be recommended. 
In these days, when there seems to be 
such an exodus from city to country, why 
shouldn’t our country homes be made to 
look as attractive in winter as in sum- 
mer? While we of the North may not in 
winter be surrounded by the verdure of 
summer, we need not content ourselves 
with the bare poles of deciduous growth. 
Evergreens protect us and delight our 
eyes with their color and varying lights 
and shadows, and what is more beautiful 
than a pine wood or group of evergreens 
after a snow-storm? 
Those of us who possess farms, while 
naturally jealous of every encroachment 
on our fields, can always find some place 
which may be planted. The immediate 
surroundings of our farm buildings are 
in many cases much too bare and bleak. 
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