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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



October, 19 lo 



Do You Want a Fireplace in 



\^mi1* T-Trtrnf? '^° you want the cheer, the comfort 

 ■■■ vJUl XH-»111C ,[,j| only an open ftrg ^^„ gjve? 



Haven't you at least one room in your house which can be absolute- 

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 tbinkmg ot building, don'l you owe it to yourself to find out all you 

 caQ about fireplaces before deciding? 



Our Beautiful Free Book — "Home and The Fireplace" 

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 buying a fireplace as simple as ordering a picture. Besides, it con- 

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 Designs— iust a few representative selections from the complete 

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 building, or if you would like to know how and where you can add 

 a fireplace to your present home, you need this book. 

 WRITE TODAY — Just send your name and address, but we would 

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Biltmore Nursery Hardy Garden 



Flowers Will Thrive in Your 



"Permanent Garden" 



The hardy plants uf Biltmore Nursery will lu-lp yuu to realize 

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 year, if set out this fall. Here on the liigh plateaus of the South- 

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 The vigor of soil and the extremes of temperature of this section 

 combine to gfive the plants the utmiist hardiness. 



Fall Planting of Hardy Flowers — and Why 



The custom of plantiiik' the hardy things in the fall, instead of 

 waiting until spring, is an excellent one, and an increasing num- 

 ber of tluwer-enthusiasts are learning its benefits. 



In the fall, wliile the soil is still warm with summer's sunshine. 



and rich with the decaying vegetable matter (if the growing 



months, hardy garden plants get a good start tuu ard the i e\t year. 



New Biltmore Book Free on Request 



"Hakdv Gakijen Flowers" is a 64-page book, handsomely 

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 "Hardy Gakhen Flowei?s" is too costly for general distribution 

 but we will gladly send a copy upon request to anyone who loves 

 the hardy plants and expects to purchase this fall or next spring. 



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H. W. HOYT, Vice-Pres. Great Lakes Engineering Works says: 



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the remains of the domicile of the year be- 

 fore. A hawk's nest is often used for 

 nany years in succession, and this is partic- 

 ularly the case with the fish hawk or osprey, 

 whose nests, thus added to year by year, 

 often become very bulky, with the under- 

 part or foundation a crumbling mass of 

 age-decayed matter. Woodpeckers, who sel- 

 dom use the same nest twice, often have 

 two or more excavations in the same stub, 

 the nesting cavities of successive years. 



All this evidence of a return of individ- 

 ual birds to a given locality is, of course, not 

 absolutely conclusive. It is seldom pos- 

 sible to adduce such conclusive evidence. 

 The reasonable conclusion, however, must 

 be that the weight of evidence is in favor of 

 the theory of the return of the same indi- 

 viduals. Some wonderful European records 

 of the return of a species to a given nesting 

 site are given by the late Prof. Alfred New- 

 ton. A common falcon, Falco percgrinus, 

 a cosmopolitan bird commonly known as 

 the duck hawk, in this country, had its eyrie 

 at one point in Finland for i lo years ; that 

 is to say, there was at this same point an 

 occupied nest of this species from 1736 to 

 1855. At Oxbridge, in one or the other of 

 two earthen bottles placed for their use, a 

 pair of blue titmice had their nest every 

 year, with two exceptions, from 1779 or 

 1785 to 1873, or a total of 88 to 94 years. 

 While it might be possible that by coinci- 

 dence the individuality of this continuous 

 tenantry would continually vary, yet it is 

 hardly possible that it was other than a case 

 of a family castle handed down to posterity. 



A fact which is incidently brought out by 

 these observations on the return of birds to 

 a given locality, is the apparently passionate 

 fondness for a given nesting site, regardless 

 of changing conditions in connection with 

 it. In illustration of this the author just 

 quoted cites the case of a stone-curlew, 

 Oedicnemiis crepitans, a bird frequenting 

 open places almost exclusively. For many 

 years a pair of these birds had a nest at a 

 certain spot near Elwedon, Suflfolk, Eng- 

 land, and during this period the environ- 

 ment underwent a complete change, from a 

 barren rabbit warren to a flourishing plan 

 tation, in the centre of which the nest con- 

 tinued to be occupied. An even more re- 

 markable example of fondness for a certain 

 spot, regardless of change of conditions, 

 was brought to the attention of the present 

 writer several years ago. A portion of 

 Long Island City, within the greater city 

 of New York, was being built up on filled- 

 in marsh. During the fall and winter a plot 

 of ground was filled-in and a house built 

 thereon. The following spring a Florida 

 gallinule, Gallinula galeata, was repeatedly 

 observed wandering disconsolately back and 

 forth across the dooryard, seeking the site 

 of last year's nest, though all about were 

 patches of virgin marsh. 



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