Our Friends the Birds 
W ITH what keen delight do we look forward to the first song-birds, 
those harbingers of spring which seem to bear to us the promise 
of opening bud and busy activities of reawakening life; but how 
little do we sometimes appreciate what added enjoyment might be ours 
at all seasons of the year if in our plantings we provided a little more 
thoughtfully for the reception of our cheery neighbors! The Bluebirds and 
Cedar Waxwings will appreciate a group of Cedars or Junipers for their 
little households, and the Catbirds, Finches, and Song Sparrows will fill 
our shrubberies with their calls and songs if we but plant trees and shrubs 
where they may conveniently feed. All these feathered neighbors repay 
us in more than a pleasurable way for they will help us keep in check all 
the insect enemies of our trees and gardens. 
Let us remember that the birds like to hide their nests away in masses 
of trees, shrubs, and thickets, where they can find cool and shadow in the 
hot summer, and that the thick-growing evergreens give them protection 
in winter. The list of plants which follows will attract birds of many 
sorts and will keep them with us long into the fall and early winter and 
provide the needed protection, seeds, and berries for those that stay with 
us through the long winter months. 
DECIDUOUS SHRUBS 
Spice Bush 
Japanese Barberry 
Common Barberry 
Allspice, or Sweet Shrub 
Sweet Pepperbush 
Siberian Red Osier 
Cornelian Cherry 
Panicled Dogwood 
European Red Osier 
Silky Dogwood 
American Red Osier 
Strawberry Bush 
Spindle Tree 
Japanese Winterberry 
American Winterberry 
European Privet, or Prim 
Tartarian Bush Honeysuckle 
Red Chokeberry 
Buckthorn 
Black Elderberry 
Coral Berry, or Indian Currant 
Snowberry 
Blueberry, or Swamp Huckleberry 
Withe-rod or Wild Raisin 
Arrow-wood 
Sheepberry 
High-bush Cranberry 
Black Haw 
Siebold’s Viburnum 
EVERGREEN TREES 
American Holly 
Japanese Holly 
Canadian Juniper 
Red Cedar 
Ground Savin 
EVERGREEN SHRUBS 
Japanese Yews and varieties 
English Yews and varieties 
Canadian Yew 
Evergreen Thorn 
Himalayan Quince Berry 
DECIDUOUS TREES 
European or Black Alder 
Shad-bush, or Service Berry 
European Bird Cherry 
Wild Black Cherry 
White-flowering Dogwood 
Carriere’s Thorn 
Scarlet Thorn 
Washington Thorn 
Cockspur Thorn 
Sweet Magnolia 
White Mulberry 
Staghorn Sumac 
Smooth Sumac 
American Mountain-Ash 
European Mountain-Ash 
ANDORRA NURSERIES 
