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to remove trees, and to prohibit the planting of them where it is 

 judged that the}' will be too close. 



Mr. Barker did not wish to be understood as advocating the 

 planting of too many trees. If those present should visit Pine 

 Grove Cemeterv the}- might think the trees are not thick enough. 

 In the old parts the avenues are damp ; but he had tried to plant 

 the new ones so that neitlier he nor his sucessors would be obliged 

 to thin out. Certainly there have been more mistakes made in 

 planting too many trees than too few. No man can take a plan 

 and sit down in his office and mark the positions of trees ; he must 

 know what people want. Nor can avenues be laid out to advant- 

 age without regard to the contour of the ground. If avenues are 

 put in proper places great saving may be made in the cost of 

 grading. The planting of trees and the laying out of paths and 

 avenues must both be adaped to the ground. 



Samuel Hartwell said that the town of Lincoln, where he re- 

 sides, has lately established a new cemeter}'- where there are man}' 

 huckleberry bushes, and he wanted to know how to eradicate them. 

 The ground has been surveyed and a plan made, and five thousand 

 feet of roads built at a cost of two thousand dollars. One acre of 

 the ground is quite heavily wooded with oaks and maples, and he 

 wanted to know how to treat them to the best advantage. 



Mr. Barker said that nothing could be more beautiful than the 

 old trees described by the preceding speaker. At Oak Hill 

 Cemetery, Georgetown, D. C, such trees have been retained, and 

 paths have sometimes been curved to save a fine tree even at the 

 expense of losing a lot. At Pine Grove Cemetery there are so 

 many stones that they are obliged to trench the whole ground five 

 feet deep to get rid of them, and all huckleberry bushes and similar 

 growths are effectually destroyed in this operation. In the land- 

 scape lawn system the lots are marked by a stone post six or eight 

 inches square at each corner, the top being set even with the sur- 

 face of the ground. 



O. B. Hadwen said that he did not feel competent to discuss the 

 paper, but its value would be appreciated when printed in our 

 Transactions. It affords much information on a subject of which 

 little is known, and when lot owners understand the situation there 

 will be less annoyance and trouble to the superintendents of cem- 

 eteries, where all must sooner or later go. 



