House and Garden 
and other conditions of culture affecting 
the vitality of the tree; since anything 
that impairs its health renders it less able 
to resist fungus attack. 
It is possible that the conspicuous 
ravages of the disease about Ne'w York 
City are largely due to the severe and 
prolonged winter of 1903-04, during 
which many trees of various kinds were 
killed or injured. The chestnut is pecu¬ 
liar, moreover, in its power to sprout 
from the stump almost indefinitely, and 
most of the trees now existing in this 
region are descendants of trees cut for 
lumber many decades ago. This re¬ 
peated coppicing cannot fail at length 
to impair the vigor of each new genera¬ 
tion of sprouts and render them pecu¬ 
liarly liable to speedy infection and 
vigorous attack. — The Florists' Ex¬ 
change. 
APOLLODORUS THE ARCHITECT 
IT is supposed that Apollodorus 
was born at Damascus. He ob¬ 
tained the favor of the Emperor Trajan, 
and was engaged on the architectural 
and engineering works constructed during 
his reign. Among them were the square 
in Rome, with the column in Rome, a 
triumphal arch, a college, a theatre for 
musical performances, the Ulpian basil¬ 
ica, a library, baths, temples, roads, 
aqueducts, the great bridge over the 
Danube. 
His Forum of Trajan excited the 
envy of Hadrian, and in consequence 
the architect was driven into exile on 
some frivolous pretext. The Emperor, 
in order to convince Apollodorus that he 
could easily dispense with his services, 
sent him a design for the Temple of 
Venus and Rome, and his opinion on it 
was asked. It had been prepared by 
Hadrian. Apollodorus answered that 
the emperor should have made it more 
lofty, and have introduced accommoda¬ 
tion below the ground for the reception, 
whenever occasion required, of the ma¬ 
chinery of the adjoining amphitheatre, 
and have imparted to the facade of the 
temple towards the Via Sacra a more 
imposing aspect. The statues, which 
were represented as seated, were said to 
be so disproportionate, that if the god¬ 
desses desired to stand up and walk they 
would not be able. As might be imag¬ 
ined, the artist paid for the freedom 
of his criticism with his life .—The Archi¬ 
tect. 
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