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shrubs, and herbaceous plants needed may be found 

 in the adjacent country. Thus, elms, maples, lin- 

 dens, viburnums, and dogwoods may be moved from 

 the edges of farm wood-lots and produce almost 

 immediately an effect of age and beauty. To pre- 

 vent intrusion, a fence along the boundary of a 

 cemetery is necessary. This can be of wire hidden 

 by a belt of trees and shrubbery, or it can be a sub- 

 stantial wall (Fig. 57). 



No one would now make the cemetery dreary by 

 confining the planting to spruces and weeping willows. 

 On the contrary, every effort is devoted to securing 

 bright cheerful effects by the selection of all kinds 

 of flowering happy-looking plants. The modern 

 cemetery becomes, in fact, a sort of arboretum. 

 It includes some evergreens which are most suitably 

 grouped along the boundary belt, and which should 

 contain all kinds of hardy pines, as well as some of 

 the more stiff and formal spruces and cedars. The 

 planting of Norway spruces, has in many places been 

 overdone. The development of attractive landscapes 

 in cemeteries is of so much importance that Mr. 

 Strauch, the greatest cemetery designer whom we 

 have had, used to call the present method 'the 

 landscape lawn plan." 



