THE 



GARDENER'S MAGAZINE, 



MARCH, 1843. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. The Principles of Landscape- Gardening and of Landscape- 

 Architecture applied to the Laying out of Public Cemeteries and 

 the Improvement of Churchyards ; including Observations on the 

 IVorking and General Management of Cemeteries and Burial- 

 Grounds. By the Conductor. 



1 HE circumstance of being employed by the Directors of a Cemetery Com- 

 pany at Cambridge to form a plan for their guidance in arranging the ground, 

 and in working and managing the cemetery afterwards, led us to study the 

 principles on which all the arrangements connected with cemeteries are, or 

 ought to be, founded, and the following pages contain the general results of 

 our enquiries. The subjects discussed are : 



I. The Uses of Cemeteries. 

 II. The Laying out, Planting, and Architecture of Cemeteries, with a view 

 to these uses. 



III. The Working and Management of Cemeteries. 



IV. Certain Innovations suggested, relative to the Selection of Ground for 



Cemeteries, and the Mode of performing Funerals, &c. 

 V. A Design for a small Cemetery on level Ground, of moderate extent, 

 exemplified in a cemetery now being formed at Cambridge, illus- 

 trated by a plan, sections, and an isometrical view. 

 VI. Design for a Cemetery on hilly Ground, with an isometrical view. 

 VII. The present State of the London Cemeteries, considered as cemetery 



gardens. 

 VIII. The Improvement and Extension of Country Churchyards, illustrated 

 by plans. 

 IX. A List of Trees, Shrubs, and perennial herbaceous Plants, adapted for 

 Cemeteries and Churchyards. 



I. The Uses of Cemeteries. 



As, to know the best mode of applying the principles of design to any par- 

 ticular object, it is necessary to know the purposes for which that object is 

 intended, we shall commence by considering the uses for which cemeteries or 

 burial-grounds are required. 



The mam object of a burial-ground is, the disposal of the remains of the 

 dead in such a manner as that their decomposition, and return to the earth 

 from which they sprung, shall not prove injurious to the living; either by 

 affecting their health, or shocking their feelings, opinions, or prejudices. 



A secondary object is, or ought to be, the improvement of the moral senti- 

 ments and general taste of all classes, and more especially of the great 

 masses of society. 



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