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sing again their welcome songs ; where blossoming 

 shrubs delight the eye, perfume the air, and make 

 attractive nesting-places. Such features may seem 

 to exist more for the living than for the dead, but 

 the living are the ones that need them. If it seems 

 natural to choose a beautiful park for a sleeping-place, 

 it seems incongruous to put into this picture obelisk 

 after obelisk, stone posts and slabs of all shapes and 

 sizes, and stone tombs. 



The problem presented to cemetery associations 

 is how to secure the most pleasing combinations of 

 growing plants, including trees, shrubs, flowers, and 

 grass, the most satisfactory views, the most har- 

 monious and restful park, for the cemetery is really 

 a memorial park. 



COUNTRY CEMETERIES 



Often a country cemetery has a most forlorn and 

 neglected appearance, being merely a combination 

 of monuments and headstones, uncut grass, Irish 

 junipers and spruces. This appearance is not due 

 so much to lack of money as to sparsity of ideas. 

 The cost of the monuments shows there has been 

 money to spend, but there has not been an appreci- 

 ation of beauty. In one neglected country cemetery, 



