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The Garden Magazine, October, 1921 



Gene Stratton-Porter's 



most engaging character is 

 this true child of Nature 



Her Father's Daughter 



OTHER BOOKS BY 

 Gene Stratton-Porter 



A Daughter of the Land 



At the Foot of the Rainbow 



Freckles 



Friends in Feathers 



A Girl of the Limberlost 



The Harvester 



Laddie 



Michael O'Halloran 



The Song of the Cardinal 



Moths of the Limberlost 



Morning Face 



Music of the Wild 



Homing With the Birds 



1INDA STRONG'S inheritance from 

 j her remarkable father includes an 

 abundant fund of love for Nature 

 and people. She understands both, with 

 a quick, sympathetic devotion. 



And it is Linda's deep capacity for love 

 that sends her merrily through the adven- 

 tures of this romance of sunny California — 

 until, finally, when she has won your heart 

 as well as the hearts of her true-blue com- 

 rades, she finds happiness and a home in 

 her native Lilac Valley. 



Applause for Gene Stratton-Porter has 

 been expressed in the purchase of nine 

 million copies of her works. Her Father's 

 Daughter is delighting both the lovers of 

 her Nature books and the admirers of her 

 fiction. Throughout the lovely, realistic 

 atmosphere of these California gardenlands, 

 and the happy surprises of the story, radi- 

 ates always the winning personality of 

 Linda Strong. 



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eased vines. The only use of spraying is to kill 

 or repel the striped cucumber beetle. Careful ex- 

 periment was made in which certain plants were 

 screened to keep the bugs away, and in every 

 case, these screened vines remained healthy while 

 those all around them died. The method of the 

 control seems to centre almost entirely in the des- 

 truction of wild Cucumbers and the elimination 

 of the cucumber beetle. Like many other insect 

 problems, this is easier said than done, for the 

 beetles are a hardy lot and thrive on many of 

 the numerous insect poisons. 



There is some reason, also, to believe that the 

 disease may be carried over on Milkweeds, 

 although this has not definitely been proved to 

 be the same form of "mosaic." 



H. F. Button, Farmingdale, L. I. 



BIRD BOOKS 

 FOR THE GARDENER 



FOR the gardener who wants more detailed 

 planting lists than those on page 77 of this 

 issue and some account of the birds themselves 

 and of the several ways their friendship may be 

 won, there are— among the many bird books pub- 

 lished — four of especial value in this connection; 

 a modest quartet which accommodatingly occupy 

 a mere five inches. 



Niel Morrow Ladd's "How to Make Friends 

 With Birds" (Nature Guide Series, Doubleday, 

 Page & Co.) is a pleasant little volume to handle, 

 presenting a remarkable amount of information 

 in remarkably concise and attractive form. Of 

 primary interest to gardeners is the portion deal- 

 ing with plant materials. Here the commuter 

 finds what trees or shrubs will transform a corner 

 of his small suburban grounds into a haven for 

 feathered folk; the farmer learns the profitable- 

 ness of preserving wild fruits and berried vines 

 along his boundaries; there is suggestion for the 

 estate owner interested in game; there are illus- 

 trated lists of berry-bearing shrubs, of seed- 

 bearing flowers, of trees affording winter food, 

 and of which birds frequent them. 



The gardener sufficiently interested in these 

 industrious little allies to care for a more per- 

 sonal acquaintance with them will find that 

 winter has its distinct advantages: leisure is 

 greater, birds fewer and more easily identified. 

 A particularly convenient means of identifica- 

 tion is found in Frank M. Chapman's "Our 

 Winter Birds" (D. Appleton & Co.) where in- 

 stead of conventional endpapers front and back, 

 the reader comes upon accurate portraits in color 

 of our "Permanent Residents" and "Winter 

 Visitants," some eighty-odd all told. These 

 and the supplementary illustrations by Ernest 

 Thompson Seton and Edmund J. Sawyer make 

 it easy for the student to recognize the living 

 birds when seen. The pages of descriptive text, 

 informal, friendly, intimate, and authoritative, 

 send the reader outdoors with new eyes and 

 understanding. 



Ernest Harold Baynes' "Wild Bird Guests" 

 (E. P. Dutton & Co.), much larger in physical 

 bulk than either of the preceding books, is also 

 somewhat larger in scope and discusses rather 

 fully the value of birds, both economic and aes- 

 thetic, why it is worth while to give them pro- 

 tection and how it may best be done. It in- 



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