A NEW BIRD-BOX.
There is still time for gardeners and estate owners to fix up bird-boxes, though already the tits are popping in and out of certain holes and crevices where they mean to nest ; and a number of thrushes, blackbirds and robins have both built and laid full clutches. Any receptacle, even, to 'quote particular exariiplen, an old kettle or a rhubarb pot, will make a.popular nesting site, and ivy will conceal and make attractive the ugliest shard. _ In bird-boxes proper, some peculiarly charming tit- homes are now made of coconuts enclosed in their full comple- ment of fibre. They are so cut that the entrance hole is adorned with eaves and seductively defended from the weather. The one trouble is to keep the coconut rigid enough. Birds do not enjoy a rocking cradle. It is wise in a garden to, clear away all old nests wherever they were. Site values are gener-
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