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with metal monuments or turned monuments to make your 

 grounds look as do many of those that we see all over the country. 

 It is just as well to have a neat little stone of granite as to have 

 those monstrosities. I wish it were possible in the arrangement 

 of cemeteries to prohibit the placing in the grounds such mon- 

 strosities as we see all over the country. 



Mr. A. J. Philips (Wis.): I just want to say one word in 

 reference to the driveways through cemeteries. In the place where 

 I live the ladies took hold and improved the cemetery, and it is 

 very nice. The railroad company gave the cinders, but after four 

 or five years they discovered that the drives were not satisfactory, 

 grass and weeds would come up through the cinders, and it was 

 hard work to keep them clean. They had those drives all cleaned 

 out and put in macadam. We have a stone quarry in town, and 

 it was not very expensive, and it makes a splendid drive. 



Mr. Bush: I think here is one of the grandest opportunities, 

 for these local improvement societies to begin on the rural ceme- 

 tery, and they will ,be largely under the supervision of the ladies, 

 and generally when they get their work started in the cemeteries 

 and improve the grounds they will continue that improvement in 

 the homes and on the school grounds. 



The President: I think there is a great mistake made in put- 

 ting these monstrosities into our cemeteries, as Mr. Loring has 

 said. Hardly any other construction can be placed upon it than 

 that they do it for the mere purpose of show and pomp. They 

 take all sorts of liberties in the ornamentation of these quiet cities 

 of the dead, merely because the residents cannot get up and pro- 

 test for themselves, no matter what is done. I think the more 

 modesty we show, the more that we do that shows that we cherish 

 a loving remembrance of those that are laid away there the better, 

 but in so many instances nine out of every ten dollars are merely 

 spent for show, and I, for my part, do not believe in it. 



Mr. Wyman Elliot: "I hope that every member present will 

 make up his mind when he gets home that he is going to put into 

 practice what he has learned here, not put his knowledge under a 

 bushel, but spread it out and let his neighbors know what he has seen 

 and what he has learned and try to induce them to become members 

 of the Minnesota Horticultural Society. We have passed the thou- 

 sand mark, and next year we want to pass the twelve hundred mark, 

 and if the right kind of work is done by our members we can do 

 it very easily. It is a very easy matter to influence a man to some- 

 thing if you approach him right, and the best way to do it in this in- 

 stance is to take your monthly magazines and distribute them to 

 your neighbors after you have read them. You get the bound 

 volume at the end of the year, and after you have read your maga- 

 zines and have taken any references out of them that you wish you 

 can give them to your neighbors and let them have the advantage 

 of reading them, and above all try to induce them to join us."' 



