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amount of labor is required that a place of that size ought to take ; 

 and I am sure I make no misrepresentation when I say one-third of 

 the land is wasted. Thus it happens that in compiling accounts of 

 actual outlay in care and maintenance of grounds, w^e often remark 

 the great cost of the care of some as compared with that of others, 

 of nearly or exactly the same size ; there being so many circum- 

 stances that differ in any two places compared. 



Unless in the case of a flat surface, it is impossible to lay out any 

 cemetery to the best advantage without first viewing the grounds. 

 Any location, be it ever so small, should be seen with all its sur- 

 roundings before a stake is driven ; and before any plan is adopted 

 we should be sure it is what we want. In other words, I should 

 reverse the usual order of work ; I should say the grounds for a 

 cemetery should be laid out first, and the plan made last. 



There are those who palm themselves off as landscape gardeners, 

 yet cannot lay out two places differently if their lives depended 

 upon it — when you have seen their plan of one place, you get at a 

 look all they have in them ; and I can assure you I do not say this 

 at hap-hazard. Some men's bump of adaptation, if they ever had 

 any, seems never to have got developed. 



It requires something more than a city office, or the accident of 

 an acquaintance with some influential trustee or lot holder, to enable 

 one to lay out a place for the whole future as well as the present, 

 a,nd in a manner that will always be acceptable. And is it not true, 

 that, in some places under such influence as I have indicated, we 

 witness in our visits a piece of mere heterogeneous botch work ; 

 where trees, shrubs, plants, and flowers are huddled in together, 

 without an}^ regard to habit of growth, taste in arrangement, or 

 anything else ? And this is called landscape gardening ! And 

 when these trees, shrubs, etc., are grown up, who can wonder that 

 even the ordinary man who does his own thinking is dissatisfied? I 

 think it is not difficult to see how it is that some other places look 

 better than such as these. 



Of course every cemetery has an entrance of some kind ; and let 

 me say, right here, this is the very place where a diligent care of 

 the grounds should be at once apparent. Our visitors are brought 

 there by no ordinary circumstance of life ; and we should always 

 be careful that their first impression is cheerful and pleasant. I 

 would make it so attractive, and keep it so neat, that the thoughts 

 and emotions of the person would at once be relieved of gloom, and 

 refreshed by the^joyful contemplation of a bright and happy scene. 



