Cherries For a Song
"DEAL gardeners grow their fruit in wire netting cages. Real gardeners employ small boys to scare the -birds from cherry trees. Real gardeners even kill thrushes, I don’t. I keep two or three bird baths full of water with the vague hope that if the birds have plenty to drink they will not eat the fruit. In any case I am content if they leave me enough for a handful in the evening. Bird song on spring mornings is cheap at the price of a few cherries."-Ralph Wightman in a BBC broadcast,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 438, 14 November 1947, Page 23
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96Cherries For a Song New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 438, 14 November 1947, Page 23
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