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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



Mat, 1914 



Add 



to the Resources 



of Your Life 



Do You Know 



What animal came over in the May- 

 flower and keeps on coming? 



Why are the plants of the 

 common mouse-ear always 

 in groups, one sex here, 

 another there, as if pro- 

 hibited from mingling 

 by some moral code 

 in nature? 



Why do nearly all 

 our trees have a 

 twist to the right or 

 the left — hard 

 woods one way, and 

 soft woods the other? 



Why do the roots 

 of trees flow through 

 the ground like "run- 

 nels of molten metal," 

 often separating and 

 uniting again, while 

 the branches are thrust 

 out in right lines or 

 curves? 



Why is our common yel- 

 low birch more often than 

 any other tree planted 

 a rock? 



Why does lightning so com 

 monly strike a hemlock tree or a 

 pine or an oak and rarely or never a 

 beech? 



Why does the bolt sometimes scatter the tree about, and 

 at others only plow a channel down its trunk? 



Why does the bumblebee complain so loudly when work 

 ing upon certain flowers? 



Why does the honey bee lose the sting when it stings a 

 person, while the wasp, the hornet, and the bumblebee do not? 



How does the chimney swallow get the twigs it builds its 

 nest with? 



From what does the hornet make its paper? 



What wild flowers lure insects to their death? 



What bird is called "Whiskey John" in the Adirondacks? 



What bird is called the "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" of birds, and why? 



What bird is pointed out as "yon slim Shakespeare on the tree?" 



What bird in velvety gray plumage has sealing-wax-tipped wings? 



What Nature Study Means to Children 



Neltje Blanchan says: "Nature, the best teacher of us all, trains the child's eyes through study 

 of the birds to quickness and precision, which are the first requisites for all intelligent observa- 

 tion in every field of knowledge. I know boys who can name a flock of ducks when they are mere 

 specks twinkling in their rapid rush across the autumn sky; and girls who instantly recognize 

 goldfinch by its waving flight above the garden. The white band across the end of the kingbird's tail 

 leads to his identification the minute some sharp young eyes perceive it. At a considerable distance a 

 little girl I know distinguished a white-eyed from a red-eyed vireo, not by the color of the iris of either 

 bird's eye, but by the yellowish-white bars on the white-eyed vireo's wings which she had noticed at a glance. 

 Another girl named the yellow-billed cuckoo, almost hidden among the shrubbery, by the white thumb-nail 

 spots on the quills of his outspread tail where it protruded for a second from a mass of leaves. A little urchin 

 from the New York City slums was the first to point out to his teacher, who had lived twenty years on a farm, 

 the faint reddish streaks on the breast of a yellow warbler in Central Park. Manytherearewhohaveeyesandseenot." 

 The New Nature Library will interest and instruct children, as well as adults,a.nd. it is the only group of 

 books on natural history that gives scientifically accurate information in simple narrative style. 



Open Your Door to a New World 



Through the Nature Library. Its eight volumes 

 are not a set of books, like a history, or an encyclo- 

 paedia — it is the door to a new world — the 

 breath of fresh air to the tired mind, the 

 hobby on which you can ride to Joy or 

 to a new success — the comfort of 

 troubled days — the medicine for 

 sick souls. Simply written, 

 brilliantly told, magnifi- 

 cently illustrated, it is 

 the great .nature 

 authority of 

 America, the 

 great nature 

 joy of the 

 American 





All This Is 



Just Part of 



One Volume 



The volume "Trees" begins 

 with an invitation to every- 

 body to get acquainted with the 

 common trees that are their near 

 neighbors. It tells how to begin 

 — how to recognize the principal 

 tree families at sight, and how to 

 use the book. 

 Part I. contains chapters descriptive of 

 the various families, each with a simple 

 key to genera and species. Every detail, 

 height, habit, bark, wood, leaf, flowers 

 and fruit. Habitat, distribution and uses 

 complete this part. Then follows the story 

 of the tree's characteristics and its useful- 

 ness in the world. The personality of the 

 species, and its standing among lumbermen 

 and horticulturists make this as interesting as it is 

 valuable. 

 Part II., Forestry, deals with practical tree culture: mul- 

 iplying, transplanting, and pruning trees; the enemies of 

 trees; methods of measuring standing timber, and work- 

 ing it into lumber. 

 Part III. deals with the uses of wood, its preservation 

 against decay, the methods of finishing wood, and the 

 making of paper from wood. 

 Part IV. The Life of the Trees, explains how the tree 

 gets its food, prepares it, and uses it in growth. The 

 work of the leaves, roots and bark is followed by an 

 explanation of the autumnal coloring and fall of 

 the leaves. 

 Valuable lists of the best trees for special pur- 

 poses, the tallest kinds, the showiest 

 kinds, etc, form the appendix. 

 The photographs, taken especially for 

 tliis book by Mr. Dugmore are used 

 in profusion, making every detail clear. 



This is only part of one 

 volume. Remember 

 there are eight 



