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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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s very sour and about the size of an apple and the plant as growing only in India. This latter statement is, however, erroneous as the lemon had already been extensively cultivated in southern and eastern Spain, where it was introduced by the agriculturally-inclined Moors. It has been cultivated for many centuries in nearly all of the countries bordering on the Mediterranean Sea and is now also extensively cultivated in the tropical and sub-tropical countries and islands of the Western Hemisphere. One variety of species, (Citrus lemetta), is a native of the East Indies and is extensively cultivated in the West Indies. Lemon trees are found everywhere in the larger green houses and conservatories along with the closely related orange. (Citrus vulgaris). As the result of cultivation there are now about fifty varieties of lemons in existence. Some of these are comparatively sweet or rather insipid and aretherefore known as sweet lemons. The sour varieties are, however, more generally cultivated. 10
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•219 LEMON. COPYRIGHT 1900 BY * W. MUMFORO CHICAGO THE WOOD THRUSH. The Bird of Solitude*
Of all the Thrushes this one is probably the most beautiful. I think the picture shows it. Look at his mottled neck and breast. Notice his large bright eye. Those who have studied birds think he is the most intelligent of them all. He is the largest of the Thrushes and has more color inhis plumage. All who have heard him agree that he is one of the sweetest singers among birds. Unlike the Robin, Catbird, or Brown Thrush, he enjoys being heard and not seen. His sweetest song may beheard in the cool of the morning or evening. It is then that his rich notes, sounding like a flute, are heard from the deep wood. The weather does not affect his song. Rain or shine, wet or dry, he sings, and sings, and sings. During the light of day the Wood Thrush likes to stay inthe cool shade of the woods. Along toward evening, after sunset, when other birds are settlingthemselves for the night, out ofthe wood you will hear his ev

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