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but there are several things like Pyrus arbuti- 

 folia which holds its berries through the winter 

 that may sometimes be eaten in a hard season. 



The service berry (Amelanchier), which is 

 sometimes used for pies in the back country, 

 must certainly be eaten by the birds, and its 

 other charms are so many that everyone should 

 be able to find room for it. 



Whether birds eat the haws of the thorn 

 trees or not I do not know. I should think 

 they would, they look so good ! 



Hackberry, which has only a limited use in 

 ornamental planting, has small berries which 

 must sometimes be good to fall back on when 

 more luscious things fail. 



The many fruit-bearing shrubs which the 

 birds like will be planted about the house 

 also. A list of these we may give at a future 

 time. 



AN UNAPPRECIATED TREE 



The sweet birch {Betula lenta) is a round- 

 headed tree of medium size which should be 

 used more often in ornamental planting. It 

 branches low, usually six or eight feet from 

 the ground when growing in the open, the 

 branches sometimes bending until their tips 

 touch the grass. 



The bark of the trunk is roughly broken 

 into rectangular grayish slabs often covered 

 with fine lichens. The small branches and 

 twigs have a smooth, shiny and reddish bark 

 with a green underlayer, like the wild cherry. 

 The bark has the characteristic odor of birch 

 when crushed, and it may be eaten. 



These slender, long and pliant twigs have 

 given "Dr. Birch" his name, and really they 

 are not more suited for any use, unless it be 

 to make brooms for genre painters' properties! 

 When the leaves are gone and the bare tree is 

 seen against the sky it seems crowded with 

 twigs : a lace work in silhouette of drooping, 

 swaying lines. 



It is excellent as a thin screen in winter, 

 and nothing is better as a companion for pine 

 trees, which, if they have not some such purple 

 haze of twigs before them in the winter, seem 

 too strong a green and emphasize too plainly 

 the general bareness of the woods and the 

 brown tones of dead grass. 



When the birch leaves first appear they 

 are the purest shiny green, such a green as 

 the emerald with the same depth and vigor. 

 Later on they loose their brightness, and be- 

 come a darker and a warmer shade. 



The long branches and withe-like twigs 

 sway back and forth as they give to even 7 

 breath of air, that one would scarcely be con- 

 scious of in any other way, making a constant 

 play of light and shade. There are no deep 

 shadows or brilliant high lights in the birch, 

 since the leaves are not shiny above or lighter 

 colored beneath. 



Though the leaves grow in the midst of 

 the head they do not prevent one from seeing 

 through. It is not a dense shade like the horse- 

 chestnut, but is thin enough to give an invi- 



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