Popular Science Monthly 



19 





The new rest-house at the entrance of the Garden of the Gods near Colorado 



Springs is built after the style of a Pueblo village, in keeping with the primeval 



magnificence of the park and its traditions 



A Pueblo Village for the Garden 

 of the Gods 



BUILT in the architectural style used 

 by the Pueblo Indians of the South- 

 west, a novel rest house has been erected 

 by the Colorado Springs Park Commis- 

 sion just within the gateway of the Gar- 

 den of the Gods. 



This magnificent park now has a 

 structure in keeping with its surround- 

 ings and its traditions, as the appearance 

 of the building harmonizes in its rugged 

 lines with the rocky backgrounds, while 

 the color, of a reddish tone, also corre- 

 sponds with the hue of the cliffs and 

 boulders. The terraced effect of the 

 building is borrowed directly from the 

 community houses such as are found in 

 Taos and a few other primitive native 

 towns, built in similar craggy places. 



Monument Built to an Apple Tree 



PERHAPS one of the most curious 

 monuments in existence has recent- 

 ly been built in Ontario by Canadians. 

 The farmers have just erected a marble 



pillar to mark the site on which grew 

 a famous apple tree. 



More than a century ago a settler 

 in Canada named Mcintosh, when clear- 

 ing a space in which to make a home 

 in the wilderness, discovered among a 

 number of wild apple trees one which 

 bore fruit so well that he cultivated it 

 and named it Mcintosh red. 



The apple became famous ; seeds and 

 cuttings were distributed to all parts of 

 Canada, so that now the Mcintosh red 

 flourishes wherever apples grow in the 

 great Dominion. In 1896, the original 

 tree from which this enormous family 

 sprang was injured by fire ; but it con- 

 tinued to bear fruit until five years ago. 

 Then, after fifteen years, it died, and 

 the grateftd farmers have raised a marr 

 ble i)illar in honor of the tree which 

 lias done so much for the fruit grow- 

 ing industry of their land. 



The story of this apple tree illustrates 

 the African proverb that though you 

 can count the apples on one tree, you 

 can never count the trees in one apple. 



