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our fellow men to make the surroundings of His house as 

 pleasant and attractive as possible. The recommendations 

 for school ground trees, etc., apply here. 



" GOD'S ACRE." No one who has noticed the neglected 

 condition of so many of our rural cemeteries will question 

 the necessity of improving them. Enclosed with a rotten, 

 tumble-down fence, overgrown with weeds and brush, a 

 portion of the graves surrounded with a rail pen, and here 

 and there a mound of clay left from a new-made grave, is 

 a description applicable to very many of them. They are 

 a relic of barbarism we should speedily rid ourselves of, 

 and, like our neglected school grounds, are a disgrace to 

 the civilization of the last years of the nineteenth century, 

 and a constant reproach to those whose loved ones are 

 sleeping there. Make bright and beautiful "God's Acre;" 

 cover it with a velvet sward; plant weeping trees, to ex- 

 press our grief for the loved ones gone before, but plant 

 evergreens, bright emblems of the better life beyond. 

 Arbor vitee tree of life and white pine, always point- 

 ing upward, are very appropriate here. 



ABOUT THE TREES. Many who desire to plant trees 

 will ask, "Where and how can I best procure them?" 

 As a rule, nursery-grown trees are much superior to those 

 taken from the forest. We would therefore advise those 

 who expect to plant to order from their home nurseryman, 

 and if he cannot supply them from his own stock, he will, 



