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windows or be a source of pleasure to the passers-by. 
By the arrangement of trees and by supplying of other 
kinds of trees a transition can be made from the orchard 
to the lawn trees and shrubs, so that the picture becomes 
one harmonious whole. This can be done by the use of 
such trees and shrubs as the flowering crab, the quince, 
almond, hawthorn, wild cherry and [tear with the repeti¬ 
tion of the tree with which the orchard is planted. 
The accessories of the orchard of which I spoke be¬ 
fore, and which consist of wind breaks and bird garden 
can be worked in also to serve a beautiful as well as 
utilitarian purpose. 
The windbreak has become a necessity in a country 
of high, drying winds. It may be either of deciduous 
or evergreen trees, (excepting of course the red cedar) 
and the same general scheme in planting a windbreak 
may be used to screen unsightly objects, giving unity to 
the whole. The windbreak may be made into a very 
charming affair by the use of various kinds of trees, 
shrubs, vines and perennials and still be as practical as 
it is beautiful. 
The same is true of a bird garden which a great many 
still feel to be an extravagance and very little has been 
done so far in establishing them among fruit growers. 
It is acknowledged, however, that birds control to a large 
extent insect pests on fruit trees. Some experts es¬ 
timate that American farmers are saved $400,000,000 an¬ 
nually by birds who eat insects that injure their crops. 
Surely such friends of the farmer deserve encourage¬ 
ment and may be kept from eating orchard fruit by the 
planting of other kinds, that the birds will prefer. \\ hen 
you know that the birds will leave your cherries to eat 
mulberries, it ought to be some incentive to plant those 
bushes that take them from your fruit and offer food and 
shelter for them while they keep your crops from the 
ravages of insects. 
If breeding places are offered them shrubbery thickets 
and water supplied to them, if food is offered them by 
planting those trees whose fruit they like, then the birds 
will flock to your home and be a source of pleasure as 
well as profit to you. The bird garden will be a delight 
to your family as well as to the birds and with a trum¬ 
pet creeper to attract the humming bird the pleasure of 
your bird garden will be complete. 
All of the plant materials such as alders, viburnums, 
elders, dogwood, sumach, etc., which are attractive as 
well as useful for furnishing food and shelter lor the 
birds may be found in your own or a neighboring wood- 
lot and may be transplanted with little trouble or ex¬ 
pense. 
And while we are speaking of wood lots let me add 
that here is another spot which can be beautiful as well 
as useful. By taking plants away to transplant elsewhere 
and by cleaning out dead material a chance is given lor 
those left to expand and take on a more perfect shape. 
Also in thinning out, some ol the plants can be sold to 
nurserymen while you still have enuogh tor your own 
use. And besides selling shrubs from your wood-lot 
money can be made in other kinds of flowers. Such as 
irises which can be planted in your marsh, marsh mari¬ 
golds, and narcissus and daffodils which can be scattered 
through your meadows without injuring your bay crop. 
These bloom year after year the narcissus always in¬ 
creasing in beauty. Also there are perennials which 
are planted along your wind break and shrubbery bor¬ 
ders. 
These flowers are the delight of the children who can 
pick and sell them with profit. And if we are going to 
make the farm pay ultimtely we must keep the young- 
people on it contented and happy with lives full of inter¬ 
est. We must satisfy the cravings of the women, whose 
love for beauty and hunger for it is most generally keener 
than a man’s. This can often be done just by a little 
flower garden which holds a charm which the other fea¬ 
tures on a farm lack. 
For as we think back we like best to remember about 
the farm, not the hard work, the harsh realities, or such 
detached delights as pure bred herds or a splendid or¬ 
chard, which, however, paid the bills and were our chief 
source of income. What we like to remember is a com¬ 
posite picture, a sum of warm, happy days, the hard 
work and ugly features in the background and the pleas¬ 
ant ones brought forth and idealized. Why cannot we 
then, in actuality, push back and screen from view, the 
unpleasant, and make the best of what we have on hand 
with what little time and money is necessary to make 
beauty a paying investment. 
In this my last plea that it pays to beautify your farm, 
I would ask you whether, when you have grown old, 
when the trees you have planted have waxed in beauty, 
when your children return to the farm because it is home 
and beautiful, when a woman's life has become richer 
and happier because there has been beauty added to it; 
when you, yourself have been broadened and made bet¬ 
ter by each attempt to beautify, and your attachment for 
your place has grown with every plant you have placed 
in your door yard, I ask you whether aside from all con¬ 
sideration of profit in dollars and cents you will have not 
found that in the long run beauty will pay for itself. 
United States Department of Agriculture, 
Office of the Secretary, Federal Horticultural Board 
Amendment no. 1 to Notice of Quarantine no 7. 
WHITE PINE BLISTEB RUST 
The fact has been determined by the Secretary of 
Agriculture that a tree disease known as White Pine Blis¬ 
ter Bust (Peridermium strobi Kleb.), not heretofore 
widely prevalent or distributed within and throughout 
the United States, exists in the Dominion ot Canada and 
in Newfoundland. 
Now, therefore, I. David F. Houston, Secretary of Agri¬ 
culture, under authority conferred by section 7 of tin* act 
approved August 20. 1912. known as "The Plant Quaran¬ 
tine Act” (37 Stat.. 313). do hereby declare that it is ne¬ 
cessary. in order to prevent the further introduction into 
the United States of the White Pine Blister Bust, to tor- 
bid the importation into the United States from tin 1 Dom¬ 
inion of Canada and Newfoundland of all five-leaved 
pines,and all species and varieties ol the genera Hibes and 
