Zhc ($arben Club 
of Hmerica 
JANUARY 1914 No. Ill 
Honorary President 
MRS. C. STUART PATTERSON 
President Secretary and Treasurer 
MRS. J. WILLIS MARTIN MISS ERNESTINE A. GOODMAN 
Chestnut Hill, Phila., Pa. Chestnut Hill, Phila., Pa. 
Vice-Presidents 
MRS. ARCHIBALD D. RUSSELL MRS. WALTER S. BREWSTER 
Princeton, N. J. Lake Forest, 111. 
MRS. ALFRED ELY MRS. FRANCIS KING 
New Milford, N.Y. Alma, Mich. 
The objects of this association shall be to stimulate the knowledge and love of gard- 
ening among amateurs, to share the advantages of association, to aid in the protection of native 
plants and birds, and to encourage civic planting. 
Go an ©riole 
How falls it, oriole, thou hast come to fly 
In tropic splendor through our Northern sky? 
At some glad moment was it Nature's choice 
To dower a scrap of sunset with a voice? 
Or did some orange tulip, flaked with black, 
In some forgotten garden, ages back, 
Yearning toward Heaven until its wish was heard, 
Desire unspeakably to be a bird? — Edgar Farvcett. 
Tfldfnter jFoofc for Btrfcs 
ALICE R. CHAMBERLIN, Andalusia, Pennsylvania 
In feeding our native birds in the winter, two classes must be 
considered — those that feed on grubs and insects in the bark and 
crevices of trees, and those that feed on seeds. The first class, which, 
with me, includes the white-breasted nut-hatch, downy woodpecker, 
chickadee, tufted titmouse and several little creepers, is the least trouble 
and most interesting. For these, get about a foot square of 1 ^-inch 
mesh wire netting and cut off two corners, as per dotted lines in Fig. 1. 
Fasten this with the double tacks (Fig. 2) used for fastening wire 
