THE GUIDE TO NATURE— ADVERTISEMENTS 
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dod hous^ ren A SIMMER HOME ! 
4 compartments, 28 All song birds raise two, and 
inches high, 18 inches usually three, broods of young 
in diameter. each year, selecting a new nest- 
irg site for each brood of young, 
so if your houses are put out 
now they are sure to be occupied. 
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win the birds. Built by a bird- 
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of these quarrelsome pests. Price $8.00. 
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At a dinner to Colonel Roosevelt 
after his return from South America 
some of the guests who had been in 
Colombia got to bragging about a gi- 
gantic tropical blackberry, a single fruit 
of which would fill a tumbler. Now 
comes Wilson Popence, explorer for 
the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant 
Introduction, and in “The Journal of 
Heredity” (Vol. XI, No. 5, pp. 195-203) 
proves that there really is such a plant. 
The plant itself is not especially large 
— about as high as a man’s shoulder, but 
its leaves are the size of a magazine 
page and as for the fruit, single berries 
are two and a half inches in length and 
decidedly broader in proportion than 
our blackberry. 
And this is the wild form. What 
would it do under cultivation ! 
The State Ornithologist of Massa- 
chusetts is planning a two-volume book 
illustrated in color on the birds of the 
state, similar to the well-known work 
on the New York birds which appeared 
a few years ago. 
What will the 
negative show? 
There’s density and definition; detail in 
high lights and shadows; correctness of 
perspective; color value — consider all 
these. For the negative can show only 
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