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LANDSCAPE GARDENING 



best example in the world. Oakwoods Cemetery, at 

 Troy, N. Y., Swan Point Cemetery, at Providence, R. I., 

 and Forest Hills Cemetery, at Boston, are some of 

 the prominent examples of the system now in vogue. 

 Graceland Cemetery, at Chicago, although much 

 smaller in area than those already mentioned, contains 



best thought of the times, with the best theories of 

 religion, science and economics. They should be, as 

 the name implies, sleeping-places places of rest and 

 freedom from intrusion. It seems natural that people 

 should seek for such a place the very best production 

 of landscape-art, a place where spreading lawns give a 



2103. Ground plan of a landscape cemetery. 



some good landscape effects. There are many other 

 cemeteries in the vicinity of the large cities of the 

 United States which can be commended on account of 

 the good taste displayed in them. There are others 

 which, while containing many beautiful trees and 

 expensive monuments, include also many fences, rail- 

 ings, copings and hedges that serve as examples of what 

 to avoid rather than to imitate. 

 Our leading cemeteries should keep pace with the 



cheerful warmth and sunlight; where pleasing vistas 

 show distant clouds or the setting sun ; where branching 

 trees give grateful shade, furnish pleasing objects to 

 look at, and places for birds to come each year and sing 

 again their welcome songs; where blossoming shrubs 

 delight the eye, perfume the air, and make attractive 

 nesting-places. Such places 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 most 



