CEMETERIES 297 



BUILDINGS AND PLANTING 



The necessary buildings will vary with the size 

 of the cemetery, but they should always be modest 

 in appearance and suitably embellished with shrub- 

 bery and vines. The office would naturally be placed 

 near the entrance to avoid unnecessary walking, but 

 it should not be built immediately on the highway 

 or public street (Fig. 56). The large stone or brick 

 arch frequently over the gateway is usually too 

 pretentious in appearance and not in keeping with 

 the character of the grounds. A natural archway 

 of living trees would be better. The chapel, if any, 

 should be placed some distance within the grounds 

 to give it greater seclusion and quietness. 



Whether there should be greenhouses or not is a 

 question that should be answered in accordance with 

 local conditions. It may merely be said that with 

 the great variety of flowering trees and shrubs avail- 

 able, as well as the thousands of hardy flowering 

 herbaceous plants, most beautiful effects can be 

 produced without the expense, the continual labor 

 and the bare beds for more than half the year, which 

 go with the construction of greenhouses and the use 

 of bedding plants. Frequently, many of the trees, 



