applied to Public Cemeteries. 



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Fig. 25. Double Borders, with Beds of 

 Flowers or Shrubs alternating with 

 Spaces for Graves. 



Fig. 26. 



Beds for Shrubs, and Circles for 

 Flowers. 



A mode of planting and managing which we should like to see tried with all 

 or any of the systemsof beds,/"gs. 21. to 24., would be to plant them with com- 

 mon yew, or with juniper, box, Pinus pumilio, or s|)ruce fir, and keep the 

 plants cut or clipped in such a manner as to form low, compact, architectural- 

 looking masses 2 or 3 feet high. 



Fig. 27. Beds for Flowers and single Shrubs 

 or low Trees, such as Thorns. 



Fig. 28. Beds for Flowers and fastigiate Trees, 

 such as the Irish Yew, alternating with Graves . 



The buildings required in cemeteries may next occupy our attention. A 

 chapel or chapels are generally required, because some persons prefer the 

 burial service read under cover, or this may be rendered necessary by 

 the state of the weather. The size of a chapel, therefore, should be such as 

 to aflford seats for the ordinary number of attendants at a funeral, with an 

 open area in the centre, of sufficient diameter to hold two or more coffins on 

 biers ; and, as it is a general custom in Christendom to carry a corpse with 

 the feet before, the body being brought in and set down on the bier in that 

 position is, after the service is over, taken up by men and turned com- 

 pletely round, so as the feet may be in advance before it is taken out of the 

 chapel. In addition, therefore, to the space necessary for holding the bier and 

 the coffin, there must be room for turning the latter completely round, either 

 while on the bier, which has long handles for that purpose, or on men's 

 shoulders. A circle 10 or 12 feet in diameter, or a square that would con- 

 tain such a circle, will afford ample space for these purposes, and the remainder 

 of the chapel may be occupied with the pulpit, desk, seats, &c. 



In the chapels of some of the new London cemeteries, instead of biers for 

 the coffins, there is a table, the top of which has one or two spaces, each 

 of the width of a coffin, filled in with rollers, and the entire top of the table 

 turns on a pivot. The coffin or coffins, when brought in, are put on the 

 table, by sliding them on the rollers; and, after the service has been performed, 

 the table is turned round on its pivot, when the coffins being thus placed in 

 the right position for going out are carried away by the bearers. The rollers 



