Excerpt from The Gardeners' Chronicle, Vol. 35: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Horticulture and Applied Subjects; January to June, 1904 There are many gardens, suburban. And. Rural, where the culture of Strawberries, bush fruits and Raspberries has been abandoned. The reason being that birds are so numerous that even before the crop comes -to maturity the blackbirds and thrushes, reinforced by a. Large army of smaller birds, get the major, part of the produce. There is little doubt but they will do so, if the culture be on the old 11nes, on bushes, for even where nets are freely used (a most expensive plan) they must be sound and free from rents, which they seldom are, or blackie will find his way in to the tempting banquet. As birds are very early risers, they will get a good break fast before even the early-rising gardener is about. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.