June, 1914 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



277 







"If I Had Only Learned As A Child" 



An able, highly cultivated man, successful in his business says this: "Because I did not learn as a child to know the birds 

 and flowers, the trees, the million little swarming living things, the outdoor world is to me a closed book. A whole world has 

 been taken from me." 



Neltje Blanchan author of "Bird Neighbors" and "Game Birds" writes: "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 observation 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 recognized a goldfinch by its 

 waving flight above the garden. The white band across the end of the king bird's tail leads to his identification the minute some sharp young eyes per- 

 ceive 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. Many there are who have eyes and see not." 



Give your children the chance to know that outdoor world. Give them the opportunity to gain that knowledge which will be of value to them as 

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