VIII 

 PARK TREATMENT OF CEMETERIES 



It is unnecessary in this present day and country 

 to advocate the use of the parking system in ceme- 

 teries. Its value and beauty are generally con- 

 ceded. The difficulty experienced, however, is so 

 to balance the portions used for lots and those set 

 aside for parking effects, that the picturesque, 

 natural scenery appears dominant, and the land 

 sold for burial purposes is retained in sufficient 

 quantities to insure a financial success of the enter- 

 prise, which, after all, is the controlling considera- 

 tion. It would be well in the beginning to make 

 a general and emphatic protest against all designs 

 involving a gridiron arrangement of lots. This 

 should not, of course, be understood to imply that 

 one or more angular lots might not occur here and 

 there in the general scheme. All this would 

 depend largely on the character and configuration 

 of the land. For the same reason it is difficult 

 to make hard and fast rules as to the arrangement 

 of any cemetery grounds. Three things, however, 

 should be barred in park cemeteries: they are 

 fences, hedges, and tall monuments. 



The simplest way to illustrate the proper develop- 

 ment of cemetery ground is to consider an actual 

 example on Long Island. .The problem that 

 presented itself was a treatment of two thousand 

 acres of nearly level territory supporting a few 



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