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and evanescent Christmas garlands, — all so inspir- 
ing to better thoughts and higher aims. 
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Notes. 
A drinking fountain on the vi 11 ige green is to 
be built next year by the Improvement Society of 
York, Me. 
The Improvement Association of Kingston, R. 
I., has during the past season bettered the condi- 
tion of streets, made sidewalks, erected and main- 
tained street lights, and instituted lecture courses 
and entertainments to raise the money to pay for 
these improvements. 
* ^ 
The Edgemont, Ohio, Improvement Association 
reports a “rousing and enthusiastic ” October meet- 
ing at which preparations were made for next year’s 
work and twenty-six prizes awarded to the boys who 
had made the best gardens. In the speech preced- 
ing the awarding of these prizes it was said that the 
object of the association was not only the improve- 
ments of the village gardens but of the village boys. 
* * * 
The Improvement Association of Richfield 
Springs, N. Y., since its organization in 1886 has 
given the village street lamps, graded and planted 
a village park, built some stone sidewalks, given a 
village hall, aided in establishing a free library, and 
encouraged and assisted in the work of beautifying 
private property. A good record. 
‘‘KVAXKSCENT CHRISTMAS C.ARI.AXDS. " 
A report from the Peterboro, N. H., Improve- 
ment Society speaks of the hopelessness ofexpecting 
much change in the appearance of cities but suggests 
the advisability of “catching towns and villages 
voung” and training them u|) in the wav they 
shonhl g'l, C. S. 
TRANSPLANTING TREES, 
The Southern Pacific Railroad Co., has accom- 
plished a masterly feat in transplanting Palms a 
century old. 
The Arcade Depot in Los xTngeles, California, 
when completed, 
several years ago, 
had two magnifi- 
cent palms, of the 
last century, taken 
up, and set on eith- 
er side of the main 
entrance. both 
palms survived the 
removal and are re- 
garded as monu- 
ments to the skill 
of modern engi- 
neeri ng as applied 
to t r a n s p 1 anting 
trees of large sizes. 
It was once consid- 
ered impracticable, 
but as Josiah Al- 
len’s wife says: 
‘ ‘ Money, these 
days, can move an 
ellum twenty feet 
high, and shade a 
park with big trees 
in a day.” 
The method is 
first to cut the ends of the roots, in a circle, around 
the outer edges, and the roots of trees generally 
extend as far as the top spreads. The trench may 
be dug deep enough to cut the end of every root 
and in a year, or some less, the tree will be ready 
for removal. The amateur way, at least, is thus 
depicted, but engineers have appliances that prove 
their efficacy in many such instances as the palms 
of the Arcade Depot, Los Angeles. The nature of 
the palm is to send down a strong straight root, so 
that depth, rather than circumference would be the 
difficulty to contend with in removal. Should that 
main tap root of gigantic proportions have been 
broken, the hardy palm would gradually have per- 
shed. Much depends also in ha\ ing the environ- 
ments as nearly like the conditions before trans- 
planting as possible, regarding the nature of the 
soil, depth and the position according to the points 
of the compa.'S. Old hunters say that moss and 
lichen grow more densely and that the bark is 
thicker on the north side of forest trees. Obviously, 
then the transplanted tree should have the same 
side to the north. G. T. Drcminn. 
A TKAN'SI'I.AXTJO) PAI.-AI- 
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