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The Canadian Horticulturist. 



OUR RURAL CEMETERIES. 



HERE is certainly much room for improvement in the laying out 

 and planting of our rural cemeteries. The city of the dead is at 

 best a mournful place, for it is so associated with the grief arising 

 from the dear departed. But it is not good to give ourselves over 

 to mourning, and the cemetery ought to be made bright and 

 cheery by landscape art, so that its associations may be robbed of 

 gloom, as far as the beauties of nature and art have charms to 

 effect. 



The following extracts from Rules and Regulations of a 

 Western Cemetery, will be interesting to many of our readers : 



The sub-division of lots by the lot owner is not allowed. 



The joint purchase of a lot is not recommended, but when it occurs, the 

 board of trustees, on application in writing if deemed expedient, may allow a 

 transfer duly executed by either owner to the others, but to no other persons. 

 No transfer is valid until entered on the ce'metery records, and no transfer of a 

 lot by sale or otherwise by a lot holder, without the consent of the board of 

 trustees, will be recognized by the association. 



To prevent the excessive and unsightly crowding of tombstones, not more 

 than one monument, grave stone or mark exceeding two feet in height above the 

 surface of the ground, shall be permitted in an entire lot. 



Grave stones or marks must be placed at the head or foot of the grave, and 

 must be placed upon foundations not less than four feet deep, and not less than 

 twelve inches square, unless the stone be a single piece, in which case a depth 

 of three feet below the ground will be sufficient. No grave stone or mark can 

 be set in a socket. 



No fence, coping or enclosure of any kind will be permitted on burial lots. 

 Boxes, shells, toys and similar articles scattered upon the graves and lawn, are 

 inconsistent with proper keeping of the ground and will not be permitted. 



Every lot holder should have a diagram on the back of his deed, or 

 convenient place for reference and mark every interment thereon. This method 

 will enable them to point the precise location for each grave, without going to 

 the grounds, and thus prevent misunderstanding and mistake, which occur from 

 an imperfect description of location. One interment only should be made in 

 the same grave, unless at a great depth or when necessity seems to require it. 



The land marks or corner stones indicating the boundaries of the lots will 

 be set even with the surface of the ground, by the superintendent at the expense 

 of the lot owners. 



No elevated mounds over graves will be permitted, as it is impossible to 

 mow the grass and keep it alive and green on mounds. No lot shall be filled 



