ISIO LANDSCAPE GARDENING 



LANDSCAPE GARDENING 



best oxaiiipk' m tlio world. (_)uk\voo(ls Coinctory, ut 

 Tn)y, N. Y., Swan Point Ci-niptery, at I'rovidcnco, R. 1., 

 ;uid Forest Hills Cemetery, at lk)st()ii, are some of 

 the prominent examples of the system now in vosuc. 

 Gracehuid Cemetery, at Chieago, although iiuuh 

 smaller in area than those already mentioned, contains 



best thought of the times, with the best theories of 

 religion, scienei- and economics. They should be, as 

 the name implies, sleejiing-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 



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2103, Ground plan of a landscape cemetery. 



some good landscape effects. There are many other 

 f*meteries in the vicinity of the largi- cities of the 

 t'nited States which can be commended on account of 

 the gfxxl taste disj)Iayed in them. There are others 

 which, while containing many beautiful trees and 

 exp<!nsive monuments, include al.so m.any fences, rail- 

 ings, copings and hi-dges that serve as examjiles of what 

 to avoid rather than to imitate. 



Our leading c(;meteries should keep pace with the 



cheerful warmth and sunlight; where jileasing vistas 

 show distant clouds or the setting sun ; where branching 

 trees give grateful shade, furnish pleasing objects to 

 look at, and pla(^es for birds to come each year and sing 

 again their welcome songs; where blossoming shrubs 

 delight the eye, jjcrfume the air, and make attractive 

 nesting-i)la(tes. Such places uuiy seem to. exist more for 

 the living than for the dead, but the living are the ones 

 that nee(l them. If it seems natural to choose a most 



