INTRODUCTION 



Due to geographical location pjad the climate-modifying 

 effect of surrounding waters, conditions in Florida vary so 

 greatly that recommendations as to planting must he given hy 

 zones. The zones adopted (Tig. 2, p, 2) are those used hy the 

 Florida Agricultural Experiment Station in its puhlications on 

 ornamental plants. The author of those puhlications, Professor 

 Harold Ivicwry, has kindly criticized the tahles included in this 

 leaflet and assisted in other wa^/s. Cooperation of U". M. 

 Eusweli, of Jcrt Myers, and of H. Harold Hume, of G-len Saint 

 Mary, also is acknoTrledged. 



Tahle 1 shows groups of fleshy fruits most attractive 

 to hirds throughout the United States and lists desirahle kinds 

 of hirds most fond of the fruit, No harherries, currants, or 

 huckthorns are listed, hecause they harhor rusts destructive to 

 plants of econcmic importance. Junipers are in almost the same 

 categOjTy, as they serve as alterna,te hosts for apple rust, hut 

 there is no reason why they cannot he used in districts where 

 apples are not commercially grown, as they are among the most 

 valuahle plants for wildlife. Omitted also are plants poison- 

 ous to man on contact, as poison ivy and poison sumac, as well 

 as various kinds dangerously poisonous to domestic animals, as 

 yews, wild cherries, and nightshades, in spite of the fact tha.t 

 wild cherries are greatly relished hy hirds. Browsing animals 

 are known to have heen killed hy feeding on the leaves of wild 

 cherries hut do not seem to he so seriously effected hy those 

 of plums. Certain plants included among fleshy fruit hearers 

 in previous puhlications have heen transferred to the list of 

 seed producers, hence do not appear in the present series of 

 leaflets. These include magnolia ( Magnolia ) , hittersweet 

 (Celastrus) , and hurninghush ( Ei.ionymus ) . 



It should he noted that the fruit-bearing sea,sons re- 

 corded, heing collected from varied sources, tend to he maxima. 

 As a rule they arc not likely to he realized or even approached 

 in a single locality unless numerous specimens of a given 

 species are present and so distributed in sun and shade as to 

 favor hoth early and late f raiting. 



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