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Vol. VI. 



$2.00 a Year. 

 24 Numbers. 



CHICAGO, JANUARY 15, 1898. 



Single Copt 

 10 Cents. 



No. 129. 



A VIEW IN GRACELAUD CEMETERY 



Cemetery. 



PLANTING AT GRAGELAND. 



Those who have access to Graceland 

 Cemetery, Chicago, receive object les- 

 sons in planting that are in every way 

 desirable. They are artistic, for they fit 

 the character and the spirit of the local- 

 ity, yet they are simplicity itself in prac- 

 tice since the plantations are composed of 

 hardy trees, shrubs and plants. Indeed 

 much of the raw material of which they 

 are made may be found growing wild 

 over the swales and ridges characteristic 

 of the lake shore north of the city. Witch 

 hazel and cornuses, Virginia creeper and 

 wild grape, asters and goldenrod are 

 examples of what may be found inside as 

 well as not far outside of Graceland. 



The accompanying illustrations show 

 some of the features seen at Graceland 

 that are merely suggestions from Nature 

 emphasized by man's intellectual selec- 

 tion, location and care. They show, too, 

 in part at least, the use of native material 

 applied in a natural way for the produc- 

 tion of scenery that suggests a bit of 

 wild wood that has been tamed and 

 brought under the supervision and care 

 of man. For instance, the native Vir- 

 ginia creeper climbs trees in its own 

 untrammeled, graceful way, but it climbs 

 the trees that its director wills it shall 

 climb. Likewise, as in natural woodland 

 one often finds trees muffled about the 

 base by an ornamental growth of herba- 

 ceous plants, so here we see the bare 

 trunks of tall transplanted elms not only 

 draped with vines but emerging from 

 tufted masses of goldenrod and asters. 



These are but specimens of man's selec- 

 tion from nature's beautiful details. 

 There are thousands more waiting to be 

 appropriated by those who can give them 

 a better opportunity for full development 

 than unaided nature can. But in select- 

 ing details for such development they 

 must be carefully chosen to fit their sur- 

 roundings or they will look as much out 

 of place as Cinderella's rags in the ball 

 room or as a palm tree on an Il'inois 

 prairie. Fanny Copley Seavey. 



NATURAL MONUMENTS. 

 Nowhere is the growing taste for nature 

 and natural objects so apparent as in the 

 adornment of the modern cemetery. This 

 has shown itself for a considerable period 

 in the frequency of natural landscape 

 effects, but it is not very long since old 

 habits compelled us to think that a cold 



