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of meddling. The high-bush cranberry delights 
the pine grosbeaks and cedar birds in winter. It 
is delightful to see this winter robin — the superb 
red-necked grosbeak —a whole flock at a time, 
like fire on the snow. They sing like Jenny Lind, 
and they talk like the Autocrat at the Breakfast 
Table. Mr. Forbush, of Massachusetts, says, 
“Note that the mulberry trees, which ripen their 
berries in June, are a protection to the cultivated 
cherries, because they ripen somewhat earlier.” 
Prof. Beal, of Michigan Agricultural College, 
names as protective of strawberries and cherries 
the Russian mulberry and the shadberry; and to 
protect raspberries and blackberries he would add 
the elderberry and the choke cherry. In September 
and October, birds that would meddle with the 
peaches and grapes can be fed on the wild black 
cherry and the Virginia creeper. As winter food 
for the birds, besides the viburnums, which I have 
named, we can supply bittersweet, pokeberry, bay- 
berry, hackberry, dogwoods, and mountain-ash 
berries. For these will come together warblers, 
vireos, and cuckoos. 
I have an idea that we can not only draw a great 
many more birds in summer to nest about us, but 
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