GARDENING FOR LITTLE GIRLS 



once a week, as the coimnereial ^^fish food'' event- 

 ually causes tuberculosis. 



Birds, too, are generally popular with flower lov- 

 ers. Canaries probably are the stand-bys, though 

 in the cities the uncommon little beauties often are 

 preferred. Polly, however, holds her own, and with 

 many people is the favorite. 



Books, — always a safe and inexpensive gift, — are 

 obtainable for the flower lover, in the most fascinat- 

 ing editions. They cover all phases of the subject, 

 indoors and out, from the window garden to the 

 vast estate, the amateur to the professional grower. 

 And no true gardener could sit down by a blazing 

 log on a blizzardy night, with Helena Rutherford 

 Ely's ''The Practical Flower Garden," or L. B. 

 Holland's ''The Garden Blue Book," filled with 

 wonderful photographs and colored plates, without 

 quickly becoming lost to the storm outside, and 

 conscious only of sun-kissed lawns with blossoms 

 nodding in the breeze. Heaven ? Your friend will 

 already be in imagination's Paradise, with an in- 

 creasing sense of gratitude over your thoughtful 

 selection. 



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