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stiff carpet beds? They would also be pleasing in 
spring and fall when those beds are a blank; and 
not without agreeable effects even in winter when 
white with snow, sparkling with frost or ice, or 
beyond, adjoining the stone cliff, where the vines 
on the face of the rocky wall w ) ild mingle with the 
added foliage; then there would be a vista of beauty 
with the li^ht iron bridge as a distant point of 
PLATE 3. 
showing ornamental fruits that cling nearly all 
winter, or brightly colored bark and evergreen 
needles. Such planting would certainly give more 
variety, and their season extends throughout the 
twelve monlhs of the year instead of being limited 
to the short time when frost allows tender bedding 
plants to live out of doors. 
Again, in No. 2: is not the back ground of hardy 
shrubs the most pleasing feature of the planting? 
And its appearance would be greatly improved by 
a little more variety in the sorts used or by less 
uniformity in pruning. 
No. 3, shows a natural setting that might be 
developed by appropriate planting into a charmingly 
naturalistic landscape. The natural features fairly 
cry out to be utilized, and a picture for passing 
tourists might be easily created that would be a far 
reaching lesson in the artistic beauty of landscape 
planting. Imagine the stone walls or cliffs draped 
with vines — -all wild; the large trees that are scattered 
about, massed on the side towards the unattractive 
street in the background, and shrubs massed in 
front of them to bring the body of foliage down to 
the lawn, from which all of the carpet beds are re- 
moved; tall shrubs grouped around the flag pole, 
as well as a vine, (perhaps a Wistaria) to climb it; 
the shrubbery plantation in front of the cottage 
enlarged by additional shrubs or small trees just 
interest to which all of the planting would lead. 
The two trees that should be moved are too 
good to be sacrificed lightly, and if they are too 
large to be transplanted, they might remain for some 
years at least, while new ones are growing to screen 
the unsightly street from the view of passing trav- 
elers. F. C. S. 
It is high time that th? great question of the 
preservation of our bird life received more atten- 
tion, and unquestionably the Women's Clubs of the 
country, not to say of the world, could do no 
grander work than exercise their powers to prevent 
the ruthless slaughter now carried on largely in the 
interests of woman’s adornment. The number of 
birds annually killed to supply the demand for 
feathers and ornaments is simply appalling in its 
magnitude, some investigator having placed the 
number at 300,000,000, with strong probabilities 
of the accuracy of the claim. And the pity of it is 
that scarcely any member of the bird family is now 
spared. Even the coarser birds of the sea coasts, 
which were once safe from commercial greed are in 
demand, and the wholsale manner in which they are 
a'l sacrificed necessarily leads to the early extinc- 
tion of many species. Laws are being enacted quite 
freely to help the birds, but it needs an overwhelm- 
ingpublic sentiment to protect our feathered friends 
