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pioneer of park-like cemeteries, and perhaps the 

 best example in the world. Oakwoods Cemetery 

 at Troy, New York, Swan Point at Providence, 

 Rhode Island, and Forest Hills at Boston are prom- 

 inent examples of landscape cemeteries. Graceland 

 at Chicago, although smaller in area than those al- 

 ready mentioned, contains some good landscape 

 effects. Many other cemeteries in the vicinity of 

 the large cities of the United States can be commended 

 on account of the good taste displayed in them. 

 There are others which, while containing many beau- 

 tiful trees and expensive monuments, include also 

 many fences, railings, copings, and hedges that serve 

 as examples of what to avoid rather than to imitate. 

 The leading cemeteries should keep pace with 

 the best thought of the times, with the best theories 

 of religion, science, and economics. They should be, 

 as the name implies, sleeping-places, places of rest 

 and freedom from intrusion. It seems natural that 

 one should seek for such a place the very best pro- 

 duction of landscape-art, where spreading lawns give 

 a cheerful sunny effect ; where pleasing vistas show 

 distant clouds or the setting sun ; where branching trees 

 give grateful shade (Fig. 58), furnish pleasing objects 

 to look at, and places for birds to come each year and 



