House and Garden 
beautiful estates of to-day display the 
same care in giving favorable location; 
and novel varieties of beautiful phlox 
are found outlining the stone walls and 
grouped about the gateways leading to 
the mansions of palatial country seats 
—many of the owners no doubt re¬ 
calling the clumps of phlox grouped 
at the big garden gate at the old 
farm home of boyhood’s days .—Floral 
Life. 
ENGLISH SPARROWS 
T)IRD LORE gives an interesting 
account of a new way the English 
sparrows have found of keeping warm 
on cold nights. Many of the houses in a 
country community have been provided 
with lanterns in porticos and entrances 
fitted with incandescent light bulbs. 
These lanterns are so constructed that it 
is quite easy for a bird to enter and find 
a perch. 
As soon as lights appear, and even be¬ 
fore, the birds take their places, one in 
each lantern. If the thermometer out¬ 
side is down to twenty-seven it may be 
forty-four inside the lantern several 
hours after lighting. 
While it gives pleasure on a wintry 
night to think that the birds are enjoying 
the warmth of the electric lights, it is 
questionable whether the toasting at 
night followed by exposure to storm and 
wind by day be beneficial to the spar¬ 
rows. And if this suddenly acquired 
habit of the English sparrow is inju¬ 
rious it is at variance with the commonly 
received idea that animal instincts are 
always a safe guide. 
If the greater warmth is so agreeable 
to these birds why do they not go in win¬ 
ter to a warmer latitude? Are they un¬ 
aware of the migration of other species, 
or are they physically unable to accom¬ 
plish it ? Or is it something so long 
absent from their hereditary make-up 
as to be non-existent to them ?— N. T. 
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