TEXTBOOK OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING 
are characterized rather by their growth of large deciduous species, 
such as oaks, maples and elms. 
5. Plant Shrubbery: A certain amount of good hardy shrub- 
bery adds greatly to the landscape charm of any planting. Such 
treatment is suitable to most cemeteries. 
6. The development of broad landscape features, such as ponds, 
running water, woodland masses or open meadows, wherever pos- 
sible, will nearly always be desirable. 
7. Restriction and regulation of monuments is an essential 
feature of the management in many of the best cemeteries, but is 
not practicable everywhere. 
8. Perpetual care is often provided through invested trust 
funds. Such endowments are always desirable where they can be 
established under stable management. 
Assignment 
After this study each pupil should be required to examine some 
cemetery and write a report. These reports should be examined, 
compared and criticized to the fullest extent possible under limi- 
tations of time. 
Readings 
WEED, Modern Park Cemeteries, Chicago, 1912. 
Simonps, Landscape Cemeteries, in Bailey Standard Cyclopedia of 
Horticulture, Vol. IV, p. 1807, New York, 1916. 
Stmonps, Landscape Gardening, Chap. XVII, New York, 1920. 
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