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HO USE & GARDEN 
welcome for feathered 
guests. Nest-boxes, 
chiefly of the Berlepsch 
type, for the accommo¬ 
dation of tenants vary¬ 
ing in size from House 
Wrens to Pileated 
Woodpeckers, are be¬ 
ing erected in the 
streets, in the wood¬ 
land and on poles at 
the edges of the fields. 
Bird baths of many 
types are being cleaned 
and overhauled, and 
down in the Bird 
Sanctuary the superin¬ 
tendent is busy setting 
out berry-bearing trees 
and shrubs and creep¬ 
ers, and giving direc¬ 
tions for the planting 
of wheat and hemp and 
millet and sunflowers 
to provide food for the 
hungry feathered folk 
next fall and winter. 
The Spreading 
Movement 
These activities might seem 
until it is learned that Meriden 
ing point of what is known as 
“77(e way Davenport, Iowa, does it.” The Academy Bird Club’s exhibi¬ 
tion of bird houses made by residents of the city is indicative of the 
growing impulse and power of the Movement 
to have merely local significance 
, New Hampshire, was the start- 
“The Bird Club Movement’’ and 
that this movement has 
already spread to hun¬ 
dreds of other villages 
and towns scattered all 
over the United States; 
if the reader were to 
visit any one of these 
places he would find 
similar activities in 
progress. And his re¬ 
spect for the movement 
would increase as he 
discovered that the 
work of caring for the 
birds is not left to the 
sentimentalists, but is 
being carried on by the 
sanest and most level¬ 
headed people in each 
community — people 
who have come to real¬ 
ize that the Bird Club 
Movement is a good 
thing, not only for the 
birds, but for the towns 
and villages and the 
surrounding farms, 
and for the people who 
live there. 
Nor is it only in the 
spring that this work is going on ; it is going on all the year 
’round. Last winter I visited many towns where people were 
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The first and inflexible rule, 
applying to Japanese flower 
arrangement, is to group the 
sprays and hold them so 
closely together that they 
appear to be a growing plant 
In this winter decoration, con¬ 
sisting of a dead branch and 
dried berries, the Japanese 
preference for delicacy and 
grace of outline rather than 
color, in floral decoration, is 
strongly shown 
/ The flowers are then arranged 
to shoiv three triangular 
points—the tallest, represent¬ 
ing the Heavens, rises over 
the center of the bowl; the 
second. Man; the third. Earth 
AS THE JAPANESE 
ARRANGE THEIR 
FLOWERS 
Photographs by courtesy of the Yamanaka Company 
Hie aecorative value of a sin 
gle flower is created by placing 
it in a flower holder within a 
bronze bowl with its leaves so 
grouped as to give it the ap¬ 
pearance of a single plant 
When used in a vase, the 
stalk is held to one side of the 
opening, with a forked stick 
or “Kubari” cut to fit diagon¬ 
ally inside the neck of tlu 
vase. This practice is con¬ 
sidered optional 
