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LANDSCAPE GARDENING 



LANDSCAPE GARDENING 



Rule 7 : No lots shall be filled above tbe established 

 grade, 



Rule 8 ; All iuterments in lots shall be restricted to 

 the members of the family or relations of the lot-owner. 



Rule 9 : No disinterment will be allowed without the 



1236. A good planting on the boundary. 

 Against this backgrouud, flowers would look well. 



permission of the Trustees, of the lot-owner, and uf the 

 next of kin of the deceased. 



Rule 10 : Mounds over graves should be kept low, not 

 exceeding four inches in height ; and stone or other 

 enclosures around graves will not be allowed. 



Rule 11 : Foundations for all monuments, headstones, 

 etc., shall be built by the cemetery at the expense of the 

 lot-owner, and fifteen days' notice must be given for the 

 building of foundations. The cost of the same must lie 

 paid in advance. 



Rule 12 : Every foundation must be at least as wide 

 and as long as the base stone resting upon it, and must 

 not project above the surface of the ground. All foun- 

 dations must extend as low as the bottom of the grave. 



Rule 13 : Only one monument will be permitted on a 

 family burial lot. 



Rule 14 : (This should be a rule limiting the height 

 of headstones, and the lower this limit is made the bet- 

 ter. Even with the lawn is considered best.) 



Rule 15 : All stone- and marble-works, monuments and 

 headstones must be accepted by the Superintendent as 

 being in conformity with the foregoing rules before 

 being taken into the cemetery. 



Rule 16: No monument, headstone or cop- 

 ing, and no portion of any vault above "" 

 ground, shall be constructed of other mater- 

 ial than cut stone or real bronze. No artific- 

 ial material will be permitted. 



Rule 17: The Trustees wish, as far as pos- 

 sible, to discourage the building of vaults, 

 believing, with the best landscape gardeners 

 of the day, that they are generally injurious 

 to the appearance of the grounds, and, un- 

 less constructed with great care, are apt to 

 leak and are liable to rapid decay, and in 

 the course of tiine to become unsightly 

 ruins. Therefore, no vaults will be per- 

 mitted to be built unless the designs for 

 the same are exceptionally good, and the 

 construction is solid and thorough. The de- 

 signs must be submitted to the Trustees, 

 and will not be approved unless the struc^ 

 ture would, in their judgment, be an archi- 

 tectural ornament to the cemetery. 



Rule 18 : JMaterial for stone or marble 

 work will not be allowed to remain in the 

 cemetery longer than shall be strictly neces- 

 sary, and refuse or other unused material 

 must be removed as soon as the work is completed. 

 In case of neglect such removal will be made by the 

 cemetery at the expense of the lot-owner and contractor. 

 who shall be severally responsible. No material of any 

 kind will be received at the cemetery after 12 o'clock m. 

 on Saturdays. 



Rule 19 : The Trustees shall have the right to make 

 exceptions from the foregoing rules in favor of designs 

 which they consider exceptionally artistic and ornamen- 

 tal, and such exceptions shall not be construed as a 

 rescission of any rule. 



Rule 20 : It shall be the duty and right of 

 the Trustees from time to time to lay out and 

 alter such avenues and walks, and to make such 

 rules and regulations for the government of the 

 grounds as they may deem requisite and proper 

 and calculated to secure and promote the gen- 

 eral object of the cemetery. 



Rule 21 : The Superintendent is directed to 

 enforce the above regulations, and to exclude 

 from the cemetery any person wilfully violating 

 the same. 



Cemeteries should be established upon a 

 basis to enable those in authority to take uni- 

 form care of the grounds for all time. The 

 prices charged for lots should be high enough 

 to enable a fund to be set aside that will yield 

 an annual income sufficient to pay all necessary 

 general expenses. In laying out a new ceme- 

 tery, those in charge should seek the best ad- 

 ^lihS ^ice available. Such advice should be based on 

 a thorough knowledge of Landscape Gardening 

 and the special needs of burial grounds. Much 

 information can be obtained bj' visiting Spring 

 Grove, at Cincinnati, Ohio, generally recognized 

 as the pioneer of park-like cemeteries, and perhaps the 

 best example in the world. Oakwoods Cemetery, at 

 Troy, N. Y. ; Swan Point Cemetery, at Providence, 

 R. I., and Forest Hills, at Boston, Mass., are some of 

 the prominent examples of the system now in vogue. 

 Graceland Cemetery, at Chicago, 111., although much 

 smaller in area than those already mentioned, contains 

 some good landscape effects. There are many other 

 cemeteries in the vicinity of the large cities of the 

 United States which can be commended on account of 

 the good taste displayed in them. There are others, 

 like Mt. Auburn of Boston, Greenwood of Brooklyn and 

 Laiirel Hill of Philadelphia, which, while containing 

 many beautiful trees and expensive monuments, in- 

 clude also many fences, railings, copings and hedges 

 that serve as examples of what to avoid rather than to 

 imitate. 



Our leading cemeteries should keep pace with the best 

 thought of the times, with the best theories of religion, 

 science and economics. They should be, as the name 

 implies, sleeping places — places of rest and freedom 

 from intrusion. It seems natural that people should 



1237. An artistic group-planting alongside a walk. 



select for such a place the very best production of land- 

 scape-art, a place where spreading lawns give a cheer- 

 ful warmth and sunlight ; where pleasing vistas show 

 distant clouds orthe setting sun ; where branching trees 

 give grateful shade, furnish pleasing objects to look at, 

 and places for the birds to come each year and fiintr 



