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centre of the lot (especiall}' where there is no monument), is very 

 desirable. 



So far, I have referred more particularly to small lots. Of course 

 larger ones will admit of more extended work ; but still the principles 

 for treating small lots will apply to larger ones. We must remem- 

 ber, of course, to attain all the variety we can in the embellishment 

 introduced ; and yet also that an effect of neatness and simplicity is 

 what we should equally strive to secure ; and that anything like 

 ostentation is entirely out of place. 



It is a good thing that tastes and customs change. We all feel 

 how much better it looks to see on a large lot, or indeed on a lot of 

 any size, one handsome monument, with simple markers set at each 

 grave to designate whose it is — than a quantity of head-stones, some 

 of one design and some of another, such as were once common. A 

 superintendent's advice is often sought on this very point. Some- 

 times the matter is presented in this way : ''I have a lot in the old 

 part of the cemetery. I inherited it from my father. I want to 

 improve it and I do not know what to do with it. It looks bad ; 

 still I dislike to disturb what my father did." This I know is an 

 ill-advised sentiment; and I would take that friend and reason with 

 him, as kindl}' as I know how, and would show him, by what had 

 been done on other old lots, what his might be and ought to be 

 made. By taking this course, if he is reall}' in earnest, you can 

 usually win him to your views ; but be assured it will take kindness, 

 and not "you must," to gain your end. 



I can show you a beautiful vista where once was an assemblage of 

 unsightly hedges and iron fences, with ragged banks and terraces, 

 half dead trees and scraggy shrubs. We now have there a range of 

 well kept lots, with vases and beds of flowers, and choice trees and 

 shrubs ; the whole area is a pleasure to all, and not one of the sev- 

 eral proprietors would restoie its former condition on any account. 

 It took time, of course, to accomplish this result. But it has been 

 done, and this single example has done more to influence others to 

 make like changes than any amount of argument could possibly 

 have done. 



On the larger lots, of a thousand or more square feet, a good w-av 

 is to form a circle, described about the centre of the lot. This will 

 leave spaces in the back and front corners, which may be planted, 

 if 3'ou please, with Cut- Leaved Birch on the back corners, Deutzia 

 gracilis in the front, or Yucca aloifolia, or anything to suit your 



