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monuments made it difficult to carry intersecting paths 

 across between them, so a plan hardly to be commended 

 has been followed, of half burying a number of these, and 

 planting bushes in the earth thus thrown about, and 

 putting the necessary frames for raising plants in the 

 centre. To place the frames against the wall, and make 

 a raised path or terrace among the tombs, and not to 

 have banked them up with a kind of rockery of broken 

 pieces, might have been more fitting. The part of the 

 ground which is less crowded is well planted. Birch and 

 alder (^Alnus cordifolia) are doing well, and a nice clump 

 of gorse flourishes. 



One of the best-arranged of these old East End 

 graveyards is that of St. George's-in-the-East, near 

 Ratcliffis Highway. It is kept up by the Borough 

 of Stepney, having been put in order under the direc- 

 tion of the rector. Rev. C. H. Turner (now Bishop of 

 Islington), at the expense of Mr. A. G. Crowder, in 

 1866. The tombstones have for the most part been 

 placed against the wall, or left standing if out of the 

 way, as in the case of the one to the Marr family, whose 

 murder caused horror in 181 i. In the centre stands the 

 obelisk monument to Mrs. Raine, a benefactress of the 

 parish, who died in 1725. The whole of the ground is 

 laid out with great taste and simplicity, and is thoroughly 

 well cared for. The flowers seem to flourish particularly 

 well, and the borders in summer are redolent with the 

 scent of old clove carnations, which are actually raised 

 and kept from year to year on the premises. A small 

 green-house supplies the needs of the flower-beds. The 

 superintendence of the garden is left to Miss Kate Hall, 

 who takes charge of the Borough of Stepney Museum in 

 Whitechapel Road, and also of the charming little 



