Identifier: birdsnature151904chic (find matches)
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 Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ns of the more northernstates are unfitted for the complete de-velopmenr o± the fruit. It is peculiar inthe fact that it yields no important by-products with the exception that it:^ sac-charine matter may be converted intosugar. The juices of the fruit cannotbe converted into wine or vinegar, andunlike the cantaloupe it does not producea good brandy when distilled The plants are annual, trailing, slen-der vines extending from eight to fifteenfeet. The leaves -^re five lobed, fromthree to six inches in length and in drycountries the plants often supply vegeta-tion when all others are dried up. Theleaves are possessed of an unusual per-spiratory power, hence they require agreater amount of moisture than ihe ma-jority of plants, the roots often extend-ing a considerable distance to reach wa-ter. For mis reason the varieties grow-ing in the irrigated fields of Persia, thefloating islands of Cashmere and thespringy river beds of India have long-been famous. Charles S. Raddin. 3j ^ > IS
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L THE STRANGE STORY OF MISS CECROPIA. Every one at all familiar with thegreat families of the earth knows thatmine, the Moths, have always been fa-mous for their beauty and elegance, andfor their remarkable life history. Ofthe former qualification for notoriety,modesty forbids me to speak what fam-ily pride might dictate. The latter traitis, of course, shared by all insects; onlyit is very pronounced in us. Each oneliterally lives the lives of three distinctanimals before its cycle is complete. Asthey are so different from each other,you can guess that many strange adven-tures come to us. At each new phasewe begin again in a new world with thelegacy of our last life to help us. But the story of my life and that ofmy immediate family, I have reason tobelieve, is unique, even for a Moth. Of my parentage I know little. Infact, it seems strange to me, and not atall unfilial, that one should care in theleast who ones parents were. Neitherdo I think it at all reprehensible thatmy father pro

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