House and Garden 
for children in Denver, has completed 
plans for the one in the Highlands 
bounded by West Thirty-ninth and West 
Thirty-eighth avenues and Osage and 
Navajo streets. 
He has provided separate out-of-door 
gymnasiums for boys and girls. The 
south end of the block will be occupied 
by an oval track for foot and wheel races, 
the cinder path to be nine laps to the 
mile. The girls will also have a hand¬ 
ball court, a giant stride, a set of see¬ 
saws, nine swings for the big girls and 
eight leather-bottomed ones for the little 
ones. A blackthorn hedge is to sur¬ 
round the girls’ gymnasium. A wading 
pool is also planned for later in the sea¬ 
son. A combined gymnasium and batii 
house is desired for the northern half of 
the grounds .—Park and Cemetery. 
ADVICE OF ARCHITECTS IN LAND¬ 
SCAPE GARDENING 
A RCHITECTS are frequently ex- 
^ pected to give advice in matters 
of landscape gardening, and, for their 
own sakes, they generally like to know 
how the trees and plants existing in the 
neighborhood of the houses that they 
build can best be made available as orna¬ 
mental objects; so that suggestions in 
regard to the improvement of old and 
unsightly trees by pruning, possess a 
peculiar value to the profession. Most 
architects, we venture to say, have im¬ 
bibed from gardeners of their acquaint¬ 
ance the idea that, in pruning a tree, the 
stump should be left of a certain length, 
for the reason that it is sure to decay at 
the end and if a sufficient length is left to 
rot away, the decay will not spread to the 
main part of the tree. According to 
“Garden and Forest,” this notion is 
very erroneous. The proper way of 
pruning trees is, as it says, to cut the 
main branches back close to a healthy 
lateral branch. By bringing the cut 
surface in this way close to the currents 
of sap circulating in the lateral, new 
woody matter is formed over it, which 
protects it from decay; and, if the end 
of the pruned branch is painted over with 
coal-tar immediately after cutting, no 
decay of the stump need be apprehended; 
while, if the cut is made so far from a 
lateral that the sap ceases to flow near it, 
the decay which is then inevitable gradu¬ 
ally communicates itself through the sub¬ 
stance of the stump to the trunk of the 
tree .—Phe American Architect. 
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Can be purchased at cost, per¬ 
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furnish their homes with durable and 
comfortable furniture—and can be 
obtained from us in the unfinished 
state, to be stained to suit purchaser or 
to match interiors. 
Pictures of 200 distinctive pieces 
sent on request. Visitors are re¬ 
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displayed in our warerooms. 
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Free sample cans to architects, contractors and 
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