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There are many plants, such as sumacs, mulberries, blackberry-lilies, jewel weeds, and hazels, which should be used, occasionally, be-cause their main value is the value of their fruit for the feeding of birds,while they possess a very minor value for ornamental landscape plant-ing. On the other hand, there is a surprisingly large list of plants whichare desirable and which are grown commercially in the nursery for usein ordinary landscape planting which do not produce valuable fruit. In this list the reader will readily note that different kinds of shrubsproduce fruit which attracts different kinds of birds. The owner of anestate should therefore know the birds which generally frequent thelocality in question and should use plants producing fruit attractiveto these species of bird life. There are many shrubs the fruit of whichis either too hard or too acid for birds to eat, such as the following:privets, sweet shrub, and bladder-nut. |
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