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gravelly sand, and surfaced with three inches in 
thickness of limestone macadam, bonded with lime- 
stone screenings, each course being alternately 
watered and well rolled. Another method: First, 
a course of limestone macadam, seven inches in 
thickness at the crown and five inches in thickness 
at the gutter line, was laid and well rolled, then a 
course of hard limestone macadam of one and one- 
half inch cubes was laid on this bed and also well 
rolled, each course being bonded with limestone 
screenings and well watered before rolling; these 
drives are thirty-four feet in width, and bordered 
with cobble stone gutters, drainage being suitably 
provided for by catch basins and piping.” 
The whole project is devised to allow of boule- 
vard connections between the several parks to the 
end that the city may have a park system, adequate 
for its growing needs, commensurate with its impor- 
tance and capable of improvement and extension on 
lines of the highest development of park practice. 
With the completion of the present design, the 
city will have a number of picturesque parks. 
The monument illustrated, that of Washington, 
is situated in one of the small parks, established 
long before the commissioners were appointed 
to undertake the comprehensive system outlined 
above. 
Notes. 
The oldest known rosebush in the world is 
found in Hildesheim, a little city of Hanover, 
where its stems have made a passage through 
a crevice in the wall and cover almost 
the whole church for the width and height of 
o 
forty feet. According to tradition, the rose- 
bush was planted by Charlemagne in 833 and 
the church having been burnt down in the ele- 
venth century the root continued to grow in the 
subsoil. Mr. Raener has recently published a 
book upon this venerable plant in which he 
proves that it is at least three centuries of 
age. It is mentioned in a poem written in 1690 
and also in the work of Jesuit who died in 1673. 
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It may not be generally known that thickly po- 
pulated as Europe is, there is yet considerable for- 
est area. Russia has 503,000,000 acres of forests. 
In Sweden and Norway the forest area covers 
62,000,000 acres; in Austria, 45,000,000; in Ger- 
many, 34,000,000 acres; in Turkey, 25,000,000 
acres; in Italy 14,000,000 acres; in Switzerland, 
1,700,000 acres; in France, 22,000,000 acres; in 
Spain 8,000,000 acres, and in Great Britian, 8,000, 
ooo acres. 
