Communications. 



OF INTEREST TO BIRD LOVERS. 



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 ry 27 at 4 o'clock, 

 iiillionse Assemblv 

 litholooist. Mr. E,i- 

 'iH lerture to the 



si'liool children anil their ]iarents and 

 friends on bird life and methods of 

 making nesting boxes and feeding 

 traya, which the children can make at 

 home. Tlie lecture will be illustrated 

 by Btereoptican slides and will be not 

 only instructive but full of interest. It 

 is free to all. 



In connection vnUi this general (.(lu- 

 latiiinal campaign the Milton Woman's 

 Club lias- scheduled a meeting for 

 l.'ebruury 3, at which Mr. Winthrop 

 Packard will deliver a lecture on bird 

 lifix 



Tt is hoped that the parents of the 

 school ,.hil,iien will make a special efl'ort 

 t,i avail tlieniselves of this lecture by 

 Ml. l.'iiibiisli on .Jan. 37, and the lecture 

 by \lr. Packard on Feb. 3, as the one 

 will sii|,|)li.inent the other in a most 

 lii.||ifiil way. It is hoped that nobody 

 ill town will miss seeing the exhibition, 

 which is to run from January 19 to 

 February 17. Make a note to go to 

 this exliibition early, as in a heated 

 room the berries are sure to wither 

 some and the beauty of them will be 

 greatest during the first week or ten 

 days of the show. 



I'.rush Hill Bird Club, 



By Harris Kennedy, 



OLD TREES. 



To the Editor of the Milton Record : 



A good deal has been said and written 

 first and last about telling the age of a 

 tree by the rings or layers of growth. 

 It recently became necessary to cut down 

 a very large elm on Bnish Hill Road 

 about opposite Metropolitan avenue. It 

 would be interesting to. know, were it 

 possible to find out, what causes the 

 death of a tree like this, which a very 

 few years ago appeared to be in very 

 good condition. Of course elm leaf 

 beetles have something to do with it, 

 but that alone would seem scarcely to be 

 sufficient to kill it. It would seem, as if 

 perhaps the building up of the road at 

 tills place may come into it also. 



Tbe object of this letter was not the 

 discussion of reasons for tics dyiii;;, 

 but. whether it is possible to tell t h,. age 

 by the layer of growth. In this tree 

 tlie layers could be counted readily up to 

 abo.ut ninety, beyond that they became 

 rather confused; but allowing a certain 

 amount for estimate, it would seem that 

 the tree was only one hundred and ten 

 years old. The main object of writing 

 about it is to tind out if anyone in Mil- 

 ton has authentic infornuition as to 

 when the tree was planted. The writer 

 would have estimated the age .as con- 

 siderably greater than the rings i seemed 

 to show. 



Kathaniel T. Kidder. 



"WILL VISIT HERBARIUMS. 



Third Outing of Education Society 

 Natural History Committee Called For 

 December 6. 



'Dw Natural History Coniniittcc ofth,. 



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 which phi,.,. Hiinni avenue ear is taken! 

 to I'.nnil sti,.,.f and the walk to the 

 dray 1 1 ci ba riii in made. Dr. Kennedy 

 wil lie at the Harvard Square station 

 at 2.1.") sliarii to conduct the party to 

 the Herbarium. 



