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beauty of peace and quietness will be better fostered by 

 the absence of fences, and yet the fence, or wall, seems 

 good to have for the purpose of barring out the desecrat- 

 ing feet of indifferent persons, or the mischief-doing, 

 wandering animals. If fences and walls are used, they 

 may be covered with thick-growing vines, remarkable for 

 their green leaves rather than for flowers, such as the 

 English ivy on the north side of buildings, and the two 

 ampelopsises, namely, the Virginia creeper and the 

 Japanese ivy, also evergreen honeysuckle and the akebia 

 quinata, while the more showy flowering clematises, 

 trumpet-creepers, wistarias, and running roses seem 

 almost too vivid and brilliant in coloring for the even 

 tone and quiet temper that we would naturally consider 

 native to the region. 



All trees are not fitted for these retired spots. Amer- 

 ican and English elms and most kinds of oaks, beeches, 

 ashes, and yews, and dark. Oriental spruces and white 

 pines, but not the weeping willow, or any weeping trees, 

 because they always seem to the author to be making a 

 travesty on melancholy ; all the others have a dignity and 

 restful ness of demeanor that comport well with all 

 proper church-yard influences. In the same way shrubs, 

 of which there are kinds suitable for the cemetery, 

 should, in their proper place along the fences, show 

 sober coloring with few conspicuous flowers, and among 

 the shrubs suited for this purpose are the horn-beam, 

 the bushy forms of dogwood, cornus alba, and C. sericea, 

 privets, spicewood, lonicera frangratissima, philadelphus, 

 rhodotypus kerrioides, symphoricarpus vulgaris, vibur- 

 num sieboldii, viburnum lantana, and viburnum pyrifolium, 

 and the white-flowering dogwood, cornus florida. 



All this may seem to the reader a little fanciful, but 



