HOUSE AND GARDEN 
July, 
1914 
Send for Booklet—“ Trees, The Care They Should Have * 
Munson 
Whitaker 
Forest Engineers 
Company 
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623 Tremont Bldg. 
Pittsburg 
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T HEY are a good bit preventative. 
For example, hundreds of the fine 
old trees that were split and dis¬ 
figured by the storm which swept parts 
of the East in early June, could have been 
prevented had our inspections been made 
of them and the cavities repaired, and 
weakened crotches chain braced. 
Ever since that storm we have been 
busy trying to save what is left of some of 
the trees and fortify those unharmed 
against the future wrestlings of nature. 
Your trees being a recognized, valuable asset to your 
grounds, it pays to pay us to keep them in repair, just as it 
does to pay a painter to paint your residence or the mechan 
ician to keep your auto “ tuned up.” 
Send for one of our inspectors. Plan to have your trees 
properly cared for by us. 
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A Home-Made Bird’s Bath 
W E had no old tree to cut off to make 
_ a foundation for this, but one day 
in passing a wood yard I saw a great tree 
trunk, and had a section of it brought to 
our yard, where it looks as if it had taken 
root from the beginning. It is about eight¬ 
een inches high and two feet in diameter. 
At the hardware store I had made a 
round pan with rolled edge. It is eighteen 
inches across and two and a half inches 
deep, made of heavy galvanized iron, and 
wears well and does not rust. It is filled 
daily except in very warm weather, when 
fresh water is put in three or four times a 
day. I drop in three or four stones of 
different sizes for the little birds to stand 
on while they drink, for birds are decid¬ 
edly careful about getting into water that 
is too deep for safety. 
Around the stump I plant nasturtiums 
that almost cover it during the season, and 
are most attractive with their bright blos¬ 
soms and pretty leaves. 
The bath is near a hedge in which are 
the tartarian honeysuckle, elder, sumac, 
and a variety of bushes that produce ber¬ 
ries that the birds love; a mulberry tree 
full of berries through the summer is a 
delight to them, as is the mountain ash 
tree that grows very near the hedge, and 
there are sunflowers in abundance. 
These all attract the birds, but no more 
than does the bath. I have seen birds fly 
from a distance, six or seven blocks and 
more, directly to the bath, and there is 
hardly a moment of the day when a num¬ 
ber of birds are not there. 
One day in migration time, early in 
May, I was attracted by by a flash of blue, 
and there on the bath dish was the blue¬ 
bird, drinking and then making his toilet. 
Before I had taken up my book to go on 
with my reading, the Baltimore oriole 
came for his bath, and then, to my surprise 
and joy, two scarlet tanagers appeared, 
and for fully five minutes they stayed to 
enjoy the water. 
The wren is sure that he owns the bath, 
and he hops in and out with an air of pro¬ 
prietorship that is most amusing. Jennie 
Wren comes less often, and when she does 
she scolds and fusses more than she bathes. 
The dear little peewee watches his chance, 
but the English sparrows give him little 
opportunity, for he is shv and cannot hold 
his own with those aggressive foreigners. 
It is most amusing to watch the English 
sparrows perched on the rim of the pan 
when the robins bathe. As he splashes they 
get a shower bath that they seem to enjoy, 
for they come often to the robins’ bath— 
but woe to any robin that attempts to ap¬ 
proach the stump while another robin 
bathes. I have wondered sometimes if the 
robin felt himself called upon to do a little 
missionary work, for the English sparrows 
take few water baths. F. S. S. 
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