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MOON’S 
NURSERIES 
T HERE must be a 
place on your lawn 
for Lilacs. MOON’S 
Lilacs are not common 
Lilacs; they are varied in 
form and color. They in¬ 
clude recent productions 
of famous hybridizers 
and old familiar sorts 
thataremostdependable. 
They have the fragrance 
of the Orient where they 
grew in wild profusion— 
they have the hardi¬ 
hood and endurance for 
America, to which coun¬ 
try they have become 
accustomed after two or 
more centuries. 
No modern lawn is com¬ 
plete without Lilacs. You 
need them as individual 
specimens; in the shrub¬ 
bery border; in the foli¬ 
age screen that hidesugly 
views—they are valuable 
in nearly every kind of 
permanent planting. In 
addition to these indis¬ 
pensable attributes they 
add a crowning virtue of 
fragrant blossoms in May 
—blossoms that are quite 
as useful for cutting for 
bouquets as for beauti¬ 
fying the lawn. 
Autumn is the best time to 
plant Lilacs. Write us about 
these and the other hardy 
trees and plants we offer 
for everyplace and purpose. 
Send for Catalogue A-4. 
The W in. H. Moon 
Company 
NUR S E RYM E N 
Morrisville, Pennsylvania 
Philadelphia Office The Moon Nursery Corp. 
21 S. Twelfth Street White Plains, N. Y. 
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Autumn Haze in the Garden 
( Continued, from page 35) 
for their color and their spikey manner 
of growth and may be used to accent 
corners or to aid weak spots in the gar¬ 
den where other plants have failed to 
account for themselves. 
Pink and white snapdragons and lav¬ 
ender and white stocks are both good 
fall blooming annuals. Violas, if sown 
early in the spring, will be sheets of 
bloom until frost and will fill the gar¬ 
den with the fragrance of violets. 
Tf you must have cannas use the new 
pink or white ones. They, like the poor, 
long suffering petunias have their good 
points if one is not led astray by the 
“orange scarlets” and “rich crimsons” 
of the nurserymen’s catalogs. 
For Brighter Colors 
A brighter September border could 
be made by utilizing a shrubbery bed 
and planting in it the ubiquitous hardy 
aster and a rusty brown double rud- 
beckia called Riverton Beauty. Blue 
spirea and African marigolds or orange 
zinnias' will fill the front of the bed, 
with lower growing groups of French 
marigolds or annual wall flowers. 1 
should not, however, advise all four 
"fillers” in an average border, good 
sized groups repeated at intervals being 
always more effective than an infinite 
variety. 
Last year I found violet butterfly 
bush and the brown rudbeckia charm¬ 
ing together in brass bowls in the 
house. This year they are living side 
by side in the garden, having proved 
such good neighbors in the house. 
The tall growing, deep blue monks¬ 
hood (Aconitum autmunale) and white 
Lady Lenox cosmos are lovely together, 
either in the garden or house in October. 
Japanese anemones, Queen Charlotte 
and alba, there are; and dahlias will 
bloom until the chrysanthemums come, 
making six weeks of cool, “livable” 
colors in the flower garden while sum¬ 
mer bids us a warm farewell. 
Birds of Passage 
O NLY in birds (unless we except 
fishes) is true migration instinct 
found. Erratic, semi-migratory 
movements of insects take place; scarcity 
of food or some other strongly compel¬ 
ling cause induces, from time to time, a 
semblance of migration among some of 
the mammals, but only the winged and 
feathered inhabitants of the globe ex¬ 
hibit a seasonal rhythmic swing from 
south to north and vice versa. 
Our modern knowledge embraces much 
data respecting the actual migratory 
movement, its date of commencement, 
duration and termination; the termini 
of the journey, the route followed, and 
the manner in which the traveling is 
performed. We have accumulated a 
great mass of statistics concerning the 
time in spring and fall when certain 
feathered wanderers may be reasonably 
expected to appear at a given point along 
their route. We know that the method 
of performing these journeys varies much 
between species, as in length of flight 
that takes them from winter to summer 
homes and return, whether they fly al¬ 
most continuously or by short, leisurely 
stages; whether flights are mostly by day 
or night or both; the route followed, and 
whether this is changed by varying 
weather or other conditions. It is well 
established that some species flock and 
fly almost entirely by themselves, that 
others are found widely scattered among 
flocks of other species, that in still other 
cases two or three species may almost 
certainly be found flocked together, 
while in some instances the flight is per¬ 
formed more in an individual and strag¬ 
gling manner. It is a fact well known to 
many gunners that the course and the 
manner of certain species of migrating 
birds have been changed materially with¬ 
in recent years, perhaps permanently, 
and that temporary changes of this char¬ 
acter constantly occur, due to easily 
recognized causes. That class of birds 
whose life cycle is, perhaps, best known 
is naturally the one which includes those 
classed as game birds. Notably, as re¬ 
gards migration, these birds fall readily 
into three divisions: the water fowl, in¬ 
cluding ducks, geese, and swans; the 
Limicolae or shore birds, principally the 
sandpipers and plovers; the gallinaceous 
birds such as the bob-white or quail and 
the ruffed grouse or partridge. 
The southward fall migration of the 
first-mentioned division may, perhaps, be 
readily ascribed to searching for wide 
and rich feeding areas, where open water 
is assured; the northern flight to a 
similar seeking of ample breeding 
grounds. While the southward flight is 
in some few instances continued as far 
as the West Indies and South America, 
in the main the movement is only suffi¬ 
cient and in general seems to conform to 
the cause assigned. In suitable locali¬ 
ties on the New England coast and along 
Long Island we find an abundant rep¬ 
resentation of this division braving the 
rigors of winter, while in the wonderful 
breeding grounds along the coast of 
North Carolina, their numbers seem only 
to be limited by the persecution of the 
gunners. The northward journey of 
the members of this division, it is true, 
is for the most part, extended well into 
the Arctic or sub-Arctic regions, but this 
is largely a matter of necessity, to se¬ 
cure sufficient areas of suitable nature 
where they may breed in peace. Where 
birds of this division are not harassed 
in late winter and spring by shooting, 
it has been found that they often remain 
in considerable numbers to breed much 
farther south than the usually ascribed 
southern limit of summer residence. 
On the other hand, the migratory 
movement of the second division men¬ 
tioned is one cf the most extreme known. 
Such birds as the golden plover, black- 
bellied plover, buff-breasted sandpiper, 
and others of their kind are startling ex¬ 
amples of the most wonderful migra¬ 
tion flights. The golden plover, breed¬ 
ing within the Arctic Circle, often ex¬ 
tends its quarters as far south as Pata¬ 
gonia. Of necessity the breeding season 
is short, but nearly six months is spent 
in winter homes. About four months 
of the year is spent in their spring and 
fall journeys, which are sometimes as 
much as 3,000 miles in length. In spring 
they travel northward via the Mississippi 
Valley, but in fall they go south by the 
way of Labrador and Nova Scotia, from 
the latter point launching out to sea, and 
in favorable weather often making a 
trip of 2,400 miles to South America 
without a known stop. There seems 
good reason to believe that this avoiding 
of our coast has increased in frequency 
since the shooting of the birds by the 
barrelful so reduced their numbers, and 
overmuch endangered a coastwise journey. 
The black-bellied plover breeds equally 
far north and, on this hemisphere, win¬ 
ters in the West Indies, Brazil, and 
Colombia. The buff-breasted sand¬ 
piper summers as far north as the 
Arctic coast and winters south of Uru¬ 
guay and Peru. Migratory movement 
in all such birds has been undoubtedly 
affected by changed coastal conditions 
and excessive shooting. 
The third division represents birds 
that are practically unaffected by mi¬ 
gratory instinct. The bob-white and 
ruffed grouse are permanent residents 
where found, till adverse circumstances 
force them to leave, or extermination re¬ 
moves them from a locality. 
—B. S. Bowdish. 
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It adds charm and neatness to your 
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Frost Can’t Stop 
A Brave Garden 
It goes on green and growing Fall, Win¬ 
ter and Spring, if it is properly equipped 
with 
for Hot-beds 
and Cold-frames 
A Cold Frame or a Hot-Bed, or both, at a 
small cost will hold your plants safe and give 
you profits worth while and pleasure unlimited. 
Double Glazed Sash are best, but we carry 
single glazed also. 
A Small, Ready-made Sunlight Greenhouse 
will give you the added advantage of working 
indoors. These also are double-glazed or sin¬ 
gle glazed at your option. 
Sunken Path House Bench House 
Write for Catalog at once. 
Immediate shipment always. 
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IRON and WIRE FENCES 
Vl/E make indestructible iron 
and wire fences and gates for 
every place and purpose. 
Put your fence problem up to us. 
One of our fence experts will give it 
his personal attention, and suggest 
the logical solution. Send for catalog. 
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Construction Co. 
100 Church Street New York City 
