TEXTBOOK OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING 
ticable for each lot to have one large oak or beech, a few large trees, 
properly placed and grouped, will do more to dignify any section 
of any cemetery than anything else which can be planted. There 
is a custom too common in this country of planting evergreens and 
weeping trees in cemeteries. Neither one has anything to recom- 
mend it. 
Fic. 28. APPROPRIATE TREATMENT OF CEMETERY LoT 
Flowering shrubs, such as roses, lilacs and spireas are some- 
times planted on private lots. They may be managed in a way to 
make them agreeable, or at least unobjectionable, but they must be 
introduced with great care. 
Beds of flowers, such as cannas, geraniums or heliotrope, are 
always objectionable. 
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