TORONTO SQUIRRELS.
I have been making sonic enquiries about the behaviour of the musk-rat in his native country ; and have so far heard very_ little to his discredit. It is abroad that he behaves worst. This cannot be said of the grey squirrel. In a very interesting letter from Toronto I ant asked how to stop squirrels eating tulips. " The grey squirrel here has a fondness for tulip, both the flower and the bulb. Last spring they cut off over two score of Darwins, evidently after the pollen—leaving the petals on the ground. That would not be so bad if he left the bulbs alone. As soon as the frost is out, he digs into the soil for bulbs of all kinds and- we find the outer shells of our lilies, &c., scattered around. They are a perky-little rodent with us and very annoying. My daughter, who has a ravine garden similar to ours, finds that by leaving suet around, as she does for the birds in the winter, the squirrel does not attack her garden. We have the red, black and grey squirrel apparently living peaceably together, . but very much at war with our efforts to keep our garden as we desire it to be."
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