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No. 2. It is formed l)y lieavv Mocks at the bot 

 torn will) lirokcn stones iit the top. It is often 

 used simi)ly for the contre.s of roads, tlie fuitsides 

 beinjr gravel, as seen in the cut. 



Riihhle pavement, a^ we understand it in Phil- 

 adeli)iiia, consists of heavy stones set a little 

 edgewise, as in the Telford plan, but coming 

 quite to the surface. It soon wears into ruts, 

 and is extremely diflicult to repair when it gets 

 bad, when made of rather soft stone, such as 

 the general gneiss rock of this district; and 

 when of harder stone is extremely rough and un- 

 pleasant to travel over. Indeed, the Rubble 

 pavement is merely the Telford in a very incom- 



roots at planting. If tliey appear dry, dip them 

 in a tub of water if small, or 8])riMkle with a 

 water pot if large, before setting. The soil im- 

 mediately about the fibres will then adhere to 

 them, and while the water thus benefits, the soil 

 is not rendered a mass of mud. If the trees ap- 

 pear very dry, prune accordingly to the degree 

 of probable injury. If a tree has a large mass 

 of fibrous roots, and these not dry, and the top 

 not very large, no pruning will be necessary. If 

 the roots are injured, prune them too a little. If 

 the injury to the root or top be very great, prune 

 the top severely. No tree or shrub need die of 

 transplanting, no matter how great the injury, 



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No. 2, — Telford Road. 



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plete condition. For the cuts with which we 

 have illustrated this sketch we are indebted to 

 the Philadelphia Polytechnic Review. 



For small walks around houses and buildings 

 there is nothing much better than slats. These 

 may be made of shingle laths, set crosswise on 

 3x4 sills. They should be set rather close, so 

 that they do not quite touch one another. Well- 

 made they look very neat, and are cool in sum- 

 mer and dry in winter — good points which 

 roads of stone, gravel, ashes, sand or grass never 

 entirely possess. Of course this is rather ex- 

 pensive where lumber is scarce and dear, but it 

 is the best even in many of these cases. 



It may be as well to remind our readers that 

 the time is approaching when all pruning opera- 

 tions be ended as soon as possible, lawns rolled 

 as soon as they can be after the frost leaves them, 

 and while still wet, in order to fill up the ine- 

 qualities; apply a top-dressing of bone-dust, 

 guano, wood ashes, or whatever other " seedless " 

 manure may be adopted, before the rolling. 

 Arrangements should be made also for Spring 

 planting, by getting good soil hauled near where 

 it may be wanted, for it is a sad loss of time to 

 plant in poor ground, and the holes may even 

 now be dug and the new soil put in. Planting, 

 however, should not be done until the soil is 

 quite dry, so that the earth can be crushed finely 

 in about the roots by the feet, instead of being 

 pressed closer together. Avoid watering the 



unless entirely dead. If there be any life at all 

 a severe pruning will save it. It is often recom- 

 mended to bury up entirely in soil for a few days, 

 plants that become dried somewhat during re- 

 moval, which usually does pretty well ; but we 

 would prefer to prune away a portion of the 

 branches. 



COMMUNICA TIONS. 



ZELKOVA CRENSTA. 



BY HON. ELI K. TRICE, OF FAIRMOUNT PARK COM- 

 MISSION, philad'a. 



Countless are the ideas exchanged at our In- 

 ternational Centennial Exhibition : I give you a 

 small but pleasing instance. Mr. Clarence H. 

 Clark wrote me several weeks since, "A friend of 

 mine of Boston was spending a few days with 

 me, and being much interested in trees, I took 

 him to Bartram's Garden, and to the Wood- 

 lands ;" and proceeds to say that in the latter he 

 saw trees, which stand north-eastward and north- 

 westward of the Mansion, which were a puzzle 

 to him. That friend was C. S. Sargent, a profes- 

 sor in the Botanical School attached to Harvard 

 College. After his return home, Mr. Sargent 

 solved the puzzle and writes thus to Mr. Clark 

 on the 27th October, 1876 : " Perhaps you don't 

 care to know, but I have cleared up the myste- 



