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Popular Science Monthly

UILT in the architectural style used by the Pueblo Indians of the Southwest, a novel rest house has been erected by the Colorado Springs Park Commission just within the gateway of the Garden of the Gods.

This magnificent park now has a structure in keeping with its surroundings and its traditions, as the appearance of the building harmonizes in its rugged lines with the rocky backgrounds, while the color, of a reddish tone, also corresponds with the hue of the cliffs and boulders. The terraced effect of the building is borrowed directly from the community houses such as are found in Taos and a few other primitive native towns, built in similar craggy places.

ERHAPS one of the most curious monuments in existence has recently been built in Ontario by Canadians. The farmers have just erected a marble pillar to mark the site on which grew a famous apple tree.

More than a century ago a settler in Canada named Mcintosh, when clearing a space in which to make a home in the wilderness, discovered among a number of wild apple trees one which bore fruit so well that he cultivated it and named it Mcintosh red.

The apple became famous; seeds and cuttings were distributed to all parts of Canada, so that now the Mcintosh red flourishes wherever apples grow in the great Dominion. In 1896, the original tree from which this enormous family sprang was injured by fire; but it continued to bear fruit until five years ago. Then, after fifteen years, it died, and the grateftd farmers have raised a marr ble i)illar in honor of the tree which lias done so much for the fruit growing industry of their land.

The story of this apple tree illustrates the African proverb that though you can count the apples on one tree, you can never count the trees in one apple.