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dint-ly- lsldnu o y, lint. ciniilm.

that here the genus Vac-

,. .;~_t place, and the hcaths Iytltzlnlllilllltc a are not to be fcuno; Iwrc ln B lln the llcatlls are of- lY, punt-abundant. covering lnltge liltths cf moorland, and the “fl-mgllnrs are comparatively few and nlosmy of the acid types like m czztllilcrry and cowberry. There ifllolilint; to compare with our Low

Stl/glt Blueberry. either in quantity

or qullilil

, Bilberry. or Bleaberry, most sought after in

110%,‘. nbeianrl, but it is cluelly pore. but“ such fertility is ex-

‘ » for ulakitlfl preserves “PIIWBI

"'1 r first ill our series is the

D“ llucketelujv, GuyI ssacia SEEDS RECEIVED

“m, \. 11s ancient name was

qmorry," from the Anglc- Soarcely any other hobby.I have ..H,.0,D,__b3a;ge," but 1t lg found. is as productive of what

ezisdwhlle the Vacciniums and swamps in all y ,8}. Atncricrl. The berries are pliksfillt to the taste, globular and o! a shillin~ black color. Emerson 113751 says the berries are more \;'_Illl‘d in the market than those of ' "‘.‘,'it"s. IICIYI‘, with a larger, sweeter m. biug in color and with a "blcoltl"; this a xi K BIIBUCBIP - gglgcvilmtns of these I-Iuckleberries I pm indcbiml to Mr. Harold Mes- yoyvy City surveyor of Charlotte-

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s, (Blueberries and ClilllbPlHlWJS) are much more abund- atlt, lnzl so favorable is our soil and cilmtllt- that they would undoubted- 1v become a great source of revenue ii thrv were brought under cultiva- tml a.» has been done elsewhere. ‘pore wits at one time a movement to effect this, but that bane of our national life, political rivalry, pro- cccdcd to throw ridicule on the pro- ject and it died still-bent. At the sllrlze time it is known that there were cranberry beds (both wlld and ' Iifil) in the Province, that .;r "lcldcd a tidy revenue to cir owners. As to the blueberries tilov are becoming profitable both to piskcrs and canners, and will become more so in the future. Thcrc are now in existence several rllrlrlics of blueberries lar-gcr and than our native forms, the n"; of selection and hybridiza- il0ll, but they are probably scarce as rot, since ‘the Ericaceae gen- erally nrc ..ot readily amenable to lttlliilitricatlcll by cuttings.

Tile Low Sweet Blueberry. or Ell-h SZVEIL B.. (Vztccinium pennsyl- vault-um) is, as far as I can judge, our commonest species. and is too wail known to need description. Enlerson, in his "Trees and Shrubs

tot -- _ Till‘ Vllcl-llnum

last sub-family of the and Ls, popuialy, that of ADOIJPICS, a. word whzse l is not clear. One of the ,5 between the flora of our nd that of the British Isles

the Blueberries, occupies a.

hc V Myrtlllus. the trun

'I'here is a form,

is the variety G. For actual

the berries. more delicious

tasted ."

flit-loan.) Its leaves are oblong

vines were cared for at Mass. but not til i840 can

b! flown as a marketable com

one acre. (Better than potatoes!) the rate of 700

poor, high and low,

well, ccmparatively young, in

has no suspicion of envy in it of something outstanding in plan or cuttings to those who admire it

desires to remain incognito).

little packets.

gave rne some grown from seed his people scn him from that country. The paren

had been bought at Webb's seed

the King buys his seeds.

Can you tell me how t.o care fo a. hybrid rose bush in the winter Does it need protection after hard frost comes‘! I would be pleas ed if you could tell me. Your truly-J’

The first packet was "Forsythia," and that is a plan I have often wished for. In 11mg land it is called the Chinese (o

is there classed as a hardy shrub I know of one plant in P. E. I. cm the property of Professor W

May. The other packet

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the seeds I found that they wer those of either the African Mari

Marigold (T, patullv: the

Monty says. "ule lvlolgoll t 1 Lake Superior is flaming lilraivlfi.

"WWI"! of the kind I have ‘Si?

The last on our list ls the Large or American Cranberry (V, macro.

emlm- W18 or Slightly whi‘e-ne:l 3mm)‘ “Id u‘? be"? (l to 2 cmln

I etcr) is twloc as large a; that, ° m? 115! lllecies Sturdevant gives us some interesting particulars a. bout this cranberry: "In i820 a few Dennis, cultivation be said to have COIII? menced. and not till i845 was it established that the cranberry could

modi-ty. In New J r , l 1879, Mr- Bishop rflisedeésg blIlsheis or?

Patches of ground have yielded st to 1.000 bushels per

mil? be termed good fellowship, as is glrdencing. It unites rich and old and (I was merely going to say) young - a common bond of friendship which‘

More: if the well-to-do is possessed life, he or she ls quick to give seeds

So I reflected, after I had received the following letter (whose IXTILPI‘ “Last summer when we called to see your garden you gave us scme seeds, so I would like to give you some in return if I have any that would interest you. I am now sending two

A man who comes from England marfgold plants plants had taken first prize at a flower show there and their seed

house, I think; anyway it was where the

I certainly was interested in the seeds alld very grateful to the giver marked

Japanese) Golden-ball Tree, and it

Reddin, but it was not in bloom when I saw it, since it flowers very early: in England frcm I-‘eby. till

tnarkcd "English Marigold." On examining

gold (Tagetes erecta) or the French seeds

(THARLOTFEWI )WN f lI -\ R H‘ AN

VITAL ISSUES AFFE IAR/SHFIELD.

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l WEEKLY COLUMN OI‘ PBAOTI CTING THE USES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BY MIL LUDLOW IINKINS

0:]. OPINIONS OI TH! ABUSE! OF

AT cur. for; ISINLPS BOARD

(By John Lindsey Blackford In Nature Magazine

When winter, stern Ice Kinil. leaves his Arctic lair and launches a swirling white offensive from out of the North a great host of our bird friends flee to the South, for they know that no places are set at his crystal banquet board for them. In truth if winter takes them lin- awares with a sudden foray. they find their mice bounteous tables bare or buried beneath his snows, and they learn once more that his warn- ings are not hollow threats but curry tite death they promise. Only the children of his own adoption and training know the devious Ways into his storerooms, and for them alone is the table spread.

Despite his driving storms, his gripping cold, his interminable nights in his own way makes prov- ision for his avian wards. Although sleet, and wind and drift may turn once verdant shelters into sheltcrless wastes, the vast evergreen forests of the North remain as always fortified havens of safety; although he prepares no repasts, the boun- ties of summer and autumn one preserved by cold storage methods for the benefit of the birds. For some the fare is scanty: for all the prize comes only with effort and lifter dangers have been risked 1nd overcome. For this ill winter's iprcvision-to every feathered fight- er a fighting chance

Here in our northern Rocky Mountain region, among the gleam- ing peaks that decorate the great Cordtllersln Highland in its deep

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mantled rivers, there is no better place to study the bird citizenry of winter's wide domain. Let us open the door to the Frost Monarchs cupboard and discover how they fare when he takes possession of the land.

Some of these rlortllcrners, par- ticularly well adapted to certain feeding habfs find a varied and bountiful tabfc set for them. Fruit pits and seeds that defy the ap- petites of mcst birds yield readily to the crushing and shearing power of the stout, heavy mandibles of tlte grcsbeaks. Seeds of mounain ash berries and conifer nutleis, to- gethrr with the plulnp kernels of chokecherry pits, and the seeds of mountain maple, boxelder nlzflow and snowberry, and of dogwood, elderberry. and juniper. lire no the bill of farc of the we". ern evening grosbcnk, who comes from his sum- mer home in tisc yellow pine for- ests of western mountains lower valleys. Occasionally claimed by Wanderlust flocks of evening gros- beaks. northern relatives of our striking mountain hllwfinch, may migrate to the Atldntic seaboarf (although these cnsitcrn bouim tramps are more likely to hail from the pine woods of Michigan or Manitcbat, adding enrollic seeds of sumac

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of ii ssvcillts-ctts," (1875) after de- _ _ V5110 9f "019" “Chard Innis HS bsmos‘ 1.8mm.“ that, bring very similar. ‘Ihc African to t* i‘ (he _ q _ ‘ H t; - plrllclllitrly suitable for species is the taller and is usual-v __ 19L gplfillgj t t-lll r and drying. Rogcr Wll- Plgilllgdofllizwéfi Tlggllgemolll-“lgrirlln

-_ ._ v -- m - gr r . ' l . - _ 11.1",“ ‘A“,,,‘§§_°,,,,_‘§e§’p,l,‘{,§§’s§§§ m fir‘. gold is more "spreading" as its glvcs point to llosrpll K801181154 b?- dzn in 1642i says that the Indians name patula implies. (It doesn't ilef till-Ill. Brltlln ls IICAIQIIIE tviifigl: o! NM, England» gathered spread from the root, only National Socianstn. _ decoy 1 ‘I

,-, tmqL ‘volvueberrles. o; whtch its growth is more bushy told, the nline-owllelst “il0s0l gill: v , an. dive“ saris; Sweet and open). When required for ally spcnt vast ‘stlms in wnlttnlngd 1, ¢u1-1-any_5_ some opgnlng exhibition only four blooms are al- .he csalia. i€hlllg caught ‘on ; romp Qt bunting “awn; saugqagh lowed t0 each plant. In England when this ionlobolllylilbxiigslrvl ltllllll rs “m. Me tinge Currants (meg and these plants are raised in boxes and will be “OIIMKI by in l-lc. le e

so prrscrvcd all the year, which thcr bcnt to powder and mingle with

their parched meal, and make o. which they call sweet to

licllcllio dish Sfllllfillllllg which is as than: as plum or spice cake is to the English." (The nlodern makers

of “ghost cereals" might do well

to imitate this sautllllthigl The ls of the N. W. coasts are

anti clsswilcre, known as the Low Black Blueberry. It has blue-green lcllrcs and the berries are black, "uslltllh- without bloom."

Qhttcr in the season comes the t-Qlll-ioit or Velvet-leaf Blueberry t\. llnlldcnsci. This has the leaves

transplanted where they bloom. The Australian gardeners

the Tagettep. likely that We seed there. ‘The Marigold is sold in C the name “Calendulafi different in appearance.

Roses of the tenderer

anada uncie

ceased an sets class. and I just make soil about it, to about half th height of the stems. In Spring

the hard frost _ the stems. leaving one bird to m the new gro

are to

have made wonderful progress with and it is every way bb's got the original English or Scottish

and is much

types should be attended to after STOW!“ "a5 d before hard weather in. I have but one of this a mound of

draw the earth away as soon as is past. and cut ‘Si! e

wth. This has always

has long been a cry for llfhOIlltlJZll- tlon of the land, though many of the laltge esnltc-s irate been broken up allu dispersed by inmcazlng taxation. wllztte: government own- ership oi the land would lnllke it easier or nlorc profitable to those wno work the land, is problematic. ‘transport, more particularly ahe great railway systems, are also on the schedule, though L38 experience of nailonlll railways in other coun- llics cannot, by nlly stretch of imagination, be described as en- couraging. ‘there are other mattzm of lesser import also that are to be changed, but if Labor is wise it will prove it. best by remembering the old Roman motto, F:siina ltntc— “l-lasten slowly."

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tlcy y b it ,1 _ iven good results. As winter ap- _ _ _

. P lllllareolyl zgeésloaraldttthemlflélfi gem-g to have set in early, before morning are tr-4>?1 Sliléll-EIOII-[LIIG Es-f

‘ m." The “Mm nsnur-topll my correspondent has prepared ‘the tablishedClulc an! 16b 01.358 0d

t not fltfgf to the berries whtch rose for it, would suggest tiat Lords. Tile Church ias roa ene

nrc art-rt but probably m [he 511g places spruce boughs round it its views and gilen valuable lead- to hold the snow. This will blanket ership often, in recent years; and

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.v ‘Ihis plant is found from

"at rllrl MzlilleIJO Wisconsin i111" lvt‘ Rcckl-rs.

‘__ _ t‘ Cnlvberry of Foxberry, (V. llls-Illul-ni is rel-e represented by

u“ ‘FY01 minus. says Gray. It 1|

Pfponcd from Trlacadle

01%;! lmtl creating, the leaves are ‘(IIWIIII brief

trvfl railrr bitter. 'I”.lete s have K'VOI1 it the name Cranberry. This is the Al-mma of the Cree In- jgrvncl the "cranberry" most tllll arcl nlcst used in Ru- j {gold Thoreau. in his "Maine

poll‘ or.

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made his desserts of these

l‘ ltitvjed f‘ - '10 .- comervative are ever now mori- ~ (l n] o; ‘antggvhwleqIgglefémfi-ti); bung and the parties of the fu-.ure ‘ ‘Illere used to be suggestions in lh llrv are “balél-y e-dlble m Am. will be Labor versus National Con- -he press as to the disposal of o.d czim." The fruit i= not much cam; servative, Llbor, it must be ad- safety-razor blades, but nobody as in a 1,11,, epher-"but l, va]ued tn mltted has worked and suffered as far (as my Wilding shows) has ever 5-, 1m Th.“ m; be,.r|es are “SQ, much as, if not more than, all told us hcw to nlake_ them last If‘. .n.i but little acid when gath- the other classes of socley, and longer! First, remember that keen- (rtti itch: afm- sxtcsumxo mm will look for reconpense; at the edged tools are better for a rest, Ltcv rccune very sour and in m: next election it will get it. Twice it hls something to do with the FJJT!‘ ihov Wm. 0pm sh-pped g0 in the history of Britain trlere has fibre of the metal recovering its hm y M1510“ mnflvt “'5' ,,craxib_me5» girggdy been a Labor mlnis.ry, but original position, I vc been told. For 1~ ham‘ ‘My "o Mm "java," inexperienced in the alt of govern- that relish swanky sets of the old (no W34" ‘vhnm the‘, u, mmt as they were, it was no won- knif.” rczcts, had a separate razor ‘it e tho tircner ‘g-tflty ma no der that their regime was short for crnhfmy of the week, the mine f‘ "n in Stirirg. I ' Now they have acquired confidence of the cay being carved on lhc .0 t m crznbcn,“ w", ‘lend. and some measure of political eau- hanic. Second, tire razor blade Pf- trni 519mg ,5; Indy W1 cation: they rave the numbers too. Fhovld be thoroughly drlcd, for rust h?’- l- _ 1m, h humbe} '11,‘, and will use them. When this cznles Is a fatal enemy to a fine cdge. is tt-e 1055,"; Cranberéy w to pa,“ what is likely to be the Then it should be given a honing In m “gm pa", 0m to m"; pond of politics? on one of the concave hone: new l .u_,,,,,,,,w1,,§,..o . m. one Labor leader has sworn to o_n_ the mwrkct. and out away in n3“ m“ " He dces 8.11428. till its tum for use comes

whitened be-ncrh.

" tr. - .. - t define the wcrd: it may b: dif- is mm.rgfs‘bggggv,gldnmqlfi'g Iiigult (and perhaps not diplomatic» t l: 55-111m- m “if b; (he to do so. But it l: an evident Fllvlcs. but smaller and to Bociety as at present confiftlbfi];

l "r flavor. 't is prabaVy F" but" °r for "Ff" f "Na,

n P. c. Island than in otll- mflmmlml '3' m I“ :31 m t

I" Pills of this continent: an au-nmmlmmm‘ n u m“ 1d a

I have not tried

f“ and also 1'11 Rvsiico Island. The stems are

ly blzlckisil mini. nlld thc berries are can?

(ninth edition 1877 tells

for a long time and oth-er 1W0 (like straw or leaves) ma The dange

it tection be added in sprlflfl- to many of the ten the sunshine Iaorldentwmust guard against if th snow goes too soon.

THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME

and this my wrres l

ways bring

war. sa s a sage al y I never ‘who

changes. but they‘are the warrior GXPKW- not being a warrior. rorelalftlsoInetglrl thlflac e c gvlifenl fItIally peace is declared. Th old party divsions

do away with "privilege.

derer plants is the

Nevertheless, I venture to changes which in England

of Liberal and

- Labor is definitely favorable to re- liklous influence, but under a so- slalized party thcrc may arise a. cry for diseslablishmcnt. The House of Lords, too. ras enlarged it bord- ers till anybody who has proved worthy, peer or pleasant, may be- ccmc a member of the gilded _L chamber: perhaps thc hereditary principle may be in danger under ‘a Labor government, but surely no one will question the rlghlt of even the humbfest to prefer a title of holler to tllc exacntlon of a more mercenary reward, so we may ex- pect the House of Lords to remain a part of the government for some time yet.

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rcund again. The mcnfion of series proclaVns that the same blade is not to be used on two consecutive days. If these simple rules are car- ried out faithfully the useful life of the blade will be pzolcngzd to n surprising extent.

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valleys, and by its swift blue. lce-.

RAZOR BLADES LAST. LONGER.

that the Rocky Mountain pine grosbeak descends into the valleys when winzer captures the heights. From the Hudsontan Zone that nigh region beginning w v.- the trees first assume a. stun.“ and storm- wracked appearance and continuing on up to timberline, of which faunal area he ls the characteristic bird, this grosbeak migrates in flocks. And since he is almost en- tirely a vegetarian, he partakcs like- wise of all the foods favored by his black, yellow and white relative.

A cosmopolitan taste acce t: the seeds of honeysuckle, buckle rrlu. service berries, o! black and red. haws, and relishes the stzminate buds of pines and the buds of maple, ash, spruce, and willow, and the fruit pulp of mountain ash ber- ries. Weed seeds too, are not over- looked.

The indiscriminate and whole- sale clearing of valley lands, with perhaps at the best only the vague idea that timbered uplands will pro- vide adequate cover for bird life. has been a practice destructive to many species. Since it overlooks the attitudinal migrations of our per- manent feathered resldents, and also deprives many summer birds of their natural habitats, such clear- ing at lower levels has inevitably reduced the number of the farmer's. the horticulturisvs, and the lumber- man's avian allies, and thinned the ranks of others treasured as much by Nature lovers. A wood lot left hem and there, a thicket on some rocky ridge, dense boscage along the water courses a bit of wild country preserved on submarginal land bordering the agricultural area will not only yield economic return but will pay dividens in this busi- ness of living.

Some afternoon let us hike across the fields to the river. Along the way where wild mustard smart- we-ed, pigweed and dock stand in defiant crowded ranks borderlngihe fences, small bird banqueters are reveling under plumbeous skies Here are wintering a number of MerrilPs song sparrows, happily secure .in their dependence on plant storehouses. Groundsel, foxtafl, timothy, meadow fescue wild oats, native grasses and seeds of sedges are other attractions to ground foragers.

By the river the vermillon fruit of t'."e red haws give gay color to the drab undergrowth on the bank. Back along a small steam we were hung up momentarily on other thorn trees still carrying their black fruit.

Strong as are the forces of ice and snow in our northern states they do not succeed in looking ccmpietly tile swifter reaches of the rivers. Leaving its broad and marshy stretches, the Kootenuf gradually increases its gradient 0'1 entering northvvesern Montana from Canada. Once again among great mountains it changes to a. powerful fast-flowing stream, bends like a tightly drawn bow, and re- turns to the Dominion Idallo. The waters of the river, shifting from side to side in ‘heir rocky channel, rushing with con- tinuous roar upon huge boulders bulging from the bed, and running rapid after rapid with tumultuous energy, are ever a challenge to the Ice King's authority.