S6 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Justice Chase, the parents of the late President U. S. Grant, 

 and the family of Ex-President Hayes. Upon the lot of the late 

 Chief Justice Stanley Matthews is an unpretentious marble monu- 

 ment. Gen. A. T. Goshorn, Director General of the Centennial 

 Exhibition of 1876, has a lot in which his father and mother are 

 buried, and Henry Probasco, the President of the cemetery cor- 

 poration, has a fine sarcophagus of Scotch granite. On a very 

 sightly eminence is placed a monumental canop}' sarcophagus of 

 Scotch granite, which Mr. Schonberger, the owner, can see from 

 his residence in Clifton, a distance of two miles. The elevation on 

 which the monument stands, and that on which Mr. Schonberger's 

 residence is located, are both from one hundred and fifty to two 

 hundred feet above the valley between them. 



Spring Grove contains about six hundred acres, of which three 

 hundred and fifty acres have been laid out and improved. There 

 are fourteen miles of avenues, covering an area of thirtj'-three 

 acres. There are seven miles of fencing, with about two and one- 

 half miles of hedge inside a portion of the fence. There is a 

 complete water system belonging to the cemetery, and fine build- 

 ings for all purposes, and every facility for carrying on the work 

 to the best advantage possible. 



I cannot close this imperfect account of Spring Grove without 

 expressing my appreciation of the kindness of Mr. William Salway, 

 who succeeded Mr. Strauch as Superintendent, and who is fully 

 qualified to carry on the work so well commenced by his prede- 

 cessor. 



Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Conn., is situated about 

 three miles from the centre of the city, and contains nearly three 

 hundred acres. The surface is charmingly diversified with hill and 

 vale, lawn and stately trees, and is unusually well adapted for a 

 lawn cemetery. The improvements since the consecration have 

 been on the most liberal basis, as the following quotation from the 

 Superintendent's report in 1886 will show. He says : " The sec- 

 tions now opened for burial purposes are located on the second 

 plateau, and on the second rise of hills, and are from one-half an 

 acre to four acres in size. Each section is surrounded by a broad, 

 well constructed avenue, and contains from thirty-two to one hun- 

 dred and twenty-five lots." 



The whole front of the cemetery extends along New Haven 

 Avenue two thousand nine hundred and four feet. The grounds 

 contain about seventy-three acres, ornamented with lakes, lawns, 



