Architectural Harmony With House and Grounds 
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own garden work). Then I came to the 
conclusion that, for you, it would not be 
the wise choice. I shall, therefore, take 
great pleasure in proceeding with the sub¬ 
sequent fractions of the Poet’s Garden, in 
their respective order. The list of these 
is as follows: A working plan; a set of 
garden tools, including sprayer, powder 
guns, and all the paraphernalia that make 
for the complete gardener; the necessary 
plants in due season; the necessary seeds, 
in their turn; and a few works on garden¬ 
ing by well-known authorities who are 
practical as well as theoretical. The 
building of the wall will, of course, be the 
first thing to undertake, and this is a task 
that will require some little time for its 
proper execution. I must beg you, there¬ 
fore, to be patient and tolerant, for this 
first spring, of the disorder and the an¬ 
noyance of workmen and litter. The 
same mason who built the house will do 
this boundary barrier; and it will be car¬ 
ried out in similar materials and harmoni¬ 
ous details, so that the house and the wall 
will be really a unit. 
“If your garden ever becomes one-half 
the pleasure to you that my garden has 
long been to me, I shall feel that the im¬ 
pulse which led me to select so unusual a 
gift for yourself and Harriet was in very 
truth an inspiration — for I do not know 
how I should live without my garden, and 
that’s the honest truth !’’ 
Feathered Neighbors 
(Continued from page 373) 
on the trees, and they occasionally paid a 
fleeting visit to the shelf. 
A year or two ago it was noticed that 
the white-breasted nuthatches and song 
sparrows were still visiting the shelf late 
in spring, and it and the food supply were 
maintained throughout the summer. The 
song sparrows fed quietly but persistently 
on the canary seed, and the nuthatches 
made frequent trips to the shelf, rejecting 
the bad sunflower seed and always select¬ 
ing a good one, which was borne to a 
nearby tree and wedged into a crevice of 
the bark, where sometimes it formed part 
of a store for future need, but more often 
was promptly “hatched” and the kernel 
devoured. For a brief period during mid¬ 
summer the nuthatches' visits ceased ; then 
one July morning they brought a family 
of full-grown young, looking larger than 
their parents, and otherwise distinguish¬ 
able from them by their short tails. These 
lusty youngsters clung to cornices and 
projections over the front of the house, 
while the busy parents carried sunflower 
seed, first to one and then to another. 
