House and Garden 
TRAILING ARBUTUS 
T he late spring brought the arbutus 
last year nearer than usual to the 
month of the name the Pilgrims gave it, 
for it is usually rather an April than a 
May flower. Unfortunately it is grow¬ 
ing rare in many places, it is so warmly 
appreciated, and there seems to be no 
hope that domestication will save it. 
The arbutus is the one wild flower that 
absolutely refuses to be tamed. Others 
of its family—rhododendrons, azaleas, 
laurels—can he made to content them¬ 
selves in our gardens. Even the edel¬ 
weiss, the Alpine flower that blossoms 
in lofty solitudes, has been made at 
home in a rockery, but the arbutus, like 
a wild free bird of the upper air, lan¬ 
guishes and dies out of its environment. 
Botanists tell us the arbutus is wonder¬ 
fully interesting as a flower that is under¬ 
going evolutionary changes looking to¬ 
ward perfecting a system of cross fer¬ 
tilization. Some flowers produce no 
pollen; others have plenty of pollen, but 
the stigmas of neighboring flowers are 
defective, so that the labors of the bees 
and small flies, which are the only insects 
abroad when the arbutus blooms, are in 
vain. In most localities, owing to these 
imperfections, the plant bears no fruit. 
It is propagated by its creeping stems 
which take root here and there. The 
means Nature provided for its preserva¬ 
tion prove its destruction all too often, 
for one who plucks up one plant in his 
greed pulls up all those attached to it 
and destroys it all .—The Country Gen- 
tle?nan. 
OILED ROADS IN KANSAS CITY 
''^HE Park Board of Kansas City, 
Mo., has issued an interesting bul¬ 
letin, showing the results of its work 
of oiling the boulevards. The bulletin 
says in part: 
“Our experiment with light residuum 
oil last fall proved entirely satisfactory as 
a dust layer and of considerable value as 
a protection to the pavements through 
the inclement winter and spring months, 
but was not of sufficient gravity or body 
to entirely accomplish the results sought. 
Upon steep grades it was^objectionable 
on account of the roadway becoming 
somewhat slippery. We [began in May, 
last year, experimenting with the heav¬ 
iest oil we could obtain in the Kansas|oil 
fields. This oil is a residuum, left after 
the distillates have been removed, and is 
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