Welcoming the Birds to the Garden 



WM. E. REED, £r k 

 Everyone Likes to See the Birds Fluttering Around. The Surest Way to Entice Them is to Cater to Their Needs 





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Showing how the 

 bricks were laid in the 

 pedestal 



BIRDS just naturally belong in a garden — 

 the trees and shrubs are their normal 

 homes; and by giving the matter a little 

 thought shrubs that will yield fruits 

 relished by our feathered friends may be made 



part of the plant- 

 ings, especially as 

 many of them are 

 highly attractive 

 from the garden- 

 er's point of view 

 in either fruit or 

 flower, or both. 



But there is just 

 one other consider- 

 ation in making the 

 garden attractive 

 to the birds- - 

 water. Waterthey 

 must have, and the 

 addition of an at- 

 tractive bird bath 

 to any garden will 

 work wonders. We 

 like to have birds 

 around to see — 

 they give "life" to 

 the picture. Now, 

 as the birds will 

 go where they find their needs supplied, the 

 matter of getting birds into a garden is very 

 simple. A low-set bath is concededly the 

 most natural looking, but in suburban sections 

 there is the danger of cats and so I wanted 

 a pedestal, that my bird lavatory might be put 

 out of reach of foul feline plans. At the concrete- 

 block-man's not far away I found a base 8 in. 





high 12 in. square on 

 top and 15 in. at the 

 bottom costing $1.00; 

 a cap of the same ma- 

 terial 2 in. thick and 14 

 in. square was 25 cents. 

 Soon a little column of 

 bricks laid in cement 

 four bricks to the tier 

 and seven tiers high 

 rose from the base and 

 was surmounted with 

 the cap. The bricks 

 (twenty-eight of them) 

 — were laid as shown in 

 the sketch. One brick 

 and a half on each side 

 making just the width 

 of the cement base, or 

 tlwelve inches. The 

 bricks of the alternate 

 layers "broke joints." 

 That is a whole brick of 

 the second course cov- 

 ered the end brick and 

 half the whole brick of 

 the course below it, and 

 so on alternately. 



Bird Bath on Pedestal 

 To outwit the cats in suburban gardens the bird bath may be elevated as was the case here 



*~pHE base of this bath was not placed on a 

 *■ foundation reaching below frost line though 

 that might well have been done, but instead on 

 the grass, for our house is occupied only in the 

 summer time and when we go away the bird bath, 

 column and all, can be picked up and carried in- 

 doors. 



Ten or fifteen minutes after the bricks were 



laid or as soon as the cement had begun to stiffen 

 a little, the joints of the bricks were "raked," 

 a simple process which sets off the column to 

 good advantage. It is not necessary to wait for 

 the cement to dry before using the column. 



The song birds are such cheerful fellows to have 

 around that it is worth while to provide some 

 simple attractions for their comfort. 



Quite at Home! 

 Birds will flock to the garden that meets their needs. Water is a sure attraction. Provide a shelter in which the bird may bathe in safety 



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