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Title: The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects
Year: 1874 (1870s)
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Subjects: Ornamental horticulture Horticulture Plants, Ornamental Gardening
Publisher: London : (Gardeners Chronicle)
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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son : I never found any in the crop, and,further, last winter when the weather was verysevere, I fed the birds in my garden ; amongst themwere blackbirds, starlings, and thrushes, Knowingof a place where there was a quantity of snails laid upfor the winter I went and got some, and placed themamongst the food put out for the birds. The black-birds, though very hungry, never even touched one,the starlings only rolled one or two over, but thethrushes seemed delighted, and soon took them to the rocks and made a meal of them, and so day byday until all the snails were gone. I do not believe forone moment that blackbirds eat slugs, and veryseldom snails. I do not think also that the thrush eatsslugs, nor do the starlings, and I only wish the twolatter were as plentiful in my garden as the former.The thrush here is getting a scarce bird, the last twowinters having been very fatal to them. I find theblackbirds most troublesome, spoiling a quantity ofPlums, Pears, and Apples, and hereabouts the
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VIEW IN THE GARDENS AT MONTE CARLO, NEAR MONACO. December 31, 1881.) THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE 853 number of these marauders increases fast. In onetree of Cratcegus Crus-Galli there were betweentwenty and thirty at one time helping themselves to the berries. In my opinion the blackbird eats morefruit than insects—at least he destroys more, whichamounts to the same thing as regards the fru.t grower.Harrison Weir, WcirlciJi, BrciuhUy, Kent. Asparagus pluraosus nanus.—This is quite adistinct thmg in the way of foliage plants, and isaltogether a better plant, both for decorative purposesand cutting from, than A. scandens. It forms a neat-habited, bushy specimen, and small plants of itwould be well adapted for table decoration. No onecan form any idea of the beauty of this without seeingit The liny needle-like branchlets are set so closelytogether on the branched stems, as to form featheryplumes of great beauty. One would surmise fromtheir fragile character that they would not last longaf

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