Provide More Winter Berries for the Birds

Meredith French

As winter settles in, gardeners enjoy snack-filled evenings by a cozy fire, but birds must look far and wide for food until spring. To attract and sustain local and migratory birds, plant some choice shrubs that offer winter berries. Then next winter, you can watch birds munch in your yard.

Cymbidiums

Fred Stewart

Cymbidiums are among the easiest of all orchids to grow. They can be successfully grown and flowered in all the temperatea parts of the United States and the world. Each year Cymbidiums are becoming more popular, for they are, from many standpoints, one of the most satisfactory of all orchids to grow. Their vigor, ease of growth, pleasant appearance when not in bloom, long lasting flower quality and great range of rich pastel colors, are all reasons for their increasing popularity.

Chrysanthemum Culture

Charles B. Winkler

For those of us who, in the fall of the year, are thrilled with the beauty of the chrysanthemum, so appropriately called the “Queen of the Fall Garden,” and would like to try growing them, here are a few suggestions as to their cultural requirements which, if followed, will assure the pleasure of beautiful blooms when the remainder of the garden is at rest.