GARDENING FOR LITTLE GIRLS 
once a week, as the commercial ‘‘fish food’’ event- 
ually causes tuberculosis. 
Birds, too, are generally popular with flower lov- 
ers. Canaries probably are the stand-bys, though 
in the cities the uncommon little beauties often are 
preferred. Polly, however, holds her own, and with 
many people is the favorite. 
Books,—always a safe and inexpensive gift,—are 
obtainable for the flower lover, in the most fascinat- 
ing editions. They cover all phases of the subject, 
indoors and out, from the window garden to the 
vast estate, the amateur to the professional grower. 
And no true gardener could sit down by a blazing 
log on a blizzardy night, with Helena Rutherford 
Ely’s ‘‘The Practical Flower Garden,’’ or L. B. 
Holland’s ‘‘The Garden Blue Book,’’ filled with 
wonderful photographs and colored plates, without 
quickly becoming lost to the storm outside, and 
conscious only of sun-kissed lawns with blossoms 
nodding in the breeze. Heaven? Your friend will 
already be in imagination’s Paradise, with an in- 
creasing sense of gratitude over your thoughtful 
selection. 
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