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PARK AND ce:me:t®:ry 
•ether photograph shows some sugar maples and other 
trees inside the fence. The scene is Imt one of hun- 
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dreds in the space of a few squares, there I)eing not a 
place large or small with a fetv trees on it that did 
not suffer loss of some kind. 
In orchards, pear, apirle, cherry and peach suffered 
terribly, peaches and cherries worse than the rest. 
No questioning the great damage done, and yet with 
proper pruning there will not be the loss so many ex- 
pect. Take, for example, the sugar maple where tlie 
horse stands. With all its broken limbs sawed off 
clean, the unbroken ones sawed off to shapen it, it will 
appear hardly the tvorse for the gale by the time au- 
tumn arrives. The same ajtplies to the tree inside the 
fence, fronting the house. Evidently it was too tall, 
its pruning having been neglected, and so far as can 
be seen it will he none the worse for the loss of its tijis. 
\\dierever large scars are left by the saw, they must he 
painted, to keep out moisture, as already suggested. 
Though the trees photographed happen to he of such 
kinds not permanently injured, there are hundreds that 
may as well he cut down. Large limbs in falling tore 
huge scars in the main trunk, which cannot he excluded 
from air without great cost, and in the case of many 
choice trees and of fruit trees they are prostrate on the 
ground. 
Old Laurel Hill Cemetery suffered greatlv, as (piitc 
a few of the trees that break easily are there, and at 
Ivy Hill Cemetery, where a feature is the great num- 
XHe Acanttitis in 
( ) X G monumental 
lesigners the acanthus 
seems tO' be the favorite 
plant for decorative 
purposes, and is very 
extensively employed 
in its various forms, 
with no consideration 
for the style of archi- 
tecture to which it is 
applied. 
In regard to the 
adoption and origin 
of the different 
forms, which are 
herewith illustrated, 
a description and 
explanation will he 
given. 
Fig. I gives an idea of the plant in its natural state, 
which grows wild in warm countries along the shores 
of rivers, but in more northern latitudes is found onl}' 
in botanical gardens and belongs to the order of plants 
known as “Acanthaccae.” 
There are many varieties, but the most common are 
NORWOOD AVE.. PHILADELPHIA, AFTER THE STORM. 
her of .American arbor vitae, every one of these trees 
.split asunder at the ground. As a rule, evergreens did 
net suffer nearly as much as deciduous trees, white 
pines being an exception, the branches on old trees 
snapping as badly as maples. 
Joseph Meeh.vn. 
Monvamental Art. 
the Acanthus sf'inosiis and Acanthus niullis or Brank- 
iirsiuc : both being natives of Southern Europe, were 
selected Iw the ancients for their beautiful leaves as an 
artistic application in architecture. 
If any obstacle resists its growth it seems to strug- 
gle to overcome it and to vegetate with renewed vigor. 
So genius, when acted upon by resistance or opposi- 
tion, redoubles its attempts to overthrow every impedi- 
ment. 
The natural leaf of the Acanthus spinosus is pinna- 
tifid, with its lobes irregular and hidentate, displaying 
a complex and varied outline and is supposed to have 
suggested to the Greeks the decorations of the Co- 
rinthian capital, Fig. v., as Vitruvius writes: 
A beautiful Athenian maid, just reaching woman- 
hood, died a few days before the time for her nuptials. 
She had a nurse who dearly loved her, and who as a 
simple mark of affection, after her death, gathered to- 
gether the flowers which should have decked her on 
her wedding day ,and putting them with her marriage 
veil in a little basket, placed it on her grave and cov- 
ered the top with a square tile. As it chanced, the bas- 
ket happened to he laid over a root of an acanthus 
plant, which, in due season, sent forth its leaves. 
These, flnding their way from under the basket, grew 
