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Be sure of this first impression ; but do not stop here — do not 

 ■expend so much of your energies here that you must neglect the 

 rest of the grounds. Wherever you can plant a rare tree, or a 

 group of nice shrubs, or a bed of flowers, do so ; and do not let the 

 marble and granite monopolize the ground anywhere. 



A few weeks ago a friend asked me, "Do you ever go to such 

 a place?" "Yes, 1 have been there," was my answer. "Well," 

 he continued, "I was there a short time ago. The entrance looked 

 nice, and our expectations were all excited ; but really that was all 

 there was to it !" Now just imagine such a feeling — one transient 

 ■good impression at first, and nothing more. We want a sustained 

 impression ; good at first, and good all the way through. 



Most of our larger cemeteries have adopted the plan of setting 

 rapart, at the sale of every lot, a portion of the purchase money, 

 which shall constitute a fund for the perpetual care of the same. 

 The advantages of this plan at once commend it to every purchaser ; 

 and it is greatly to be regretted, in the case of many of our cemetery 

 corporations, that they did not have foresight suflScient to add this 

 feature long ago. It will need no extended argument to convince 

 every close observer that a provision for the perpetual care of every 

 lot, combined with the lawn plan of laying out the grounds, makes 

 it much easier to care for them than when they are laid out in the 

 old style, and with liberty to every purchaser to establish his own 

 grade, so that one lot is high and another low. As I am writing I 

 ■call to mind a cemetery, a portion of which is quite level, and yet 

 on this very part the amount of filling put in is so great that the 

 paths have the appearance of ditches, more than anything else ; and 

 long flights of steps are necessarily provided to very many of the 

 lots to make them accessible ; and the interments cannot be more 

 than a foot or two, if so much, below the grade of the avenues and 

 paths. Imagme this to take care of ! 



Have not I succeeded in showing why it is that a man can do 

 double and in some cases treble the effective work, where the 

 grounds are laid out on the lawn plan ? In the one case there is a 

 bank or terrace to nearly every lot that he works on, and the sickle 

 is in constant use ; in the other, he has little use for anything but his 

 mowing machine and the wooden lawn grass rake. Again, remem- 

 ber that, under our hot suns in July and August, nothing can be 

 more unsightly than a long extent of dried up sun-burnt banks and 

 terraces. Considering all these facts, are we not justified in advo- 



