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HOMESTEAD PARKS 



If we find the gridiron design or checkerboard 

 pattern frequently applied to cemeteries, even 

 more do we find it applied to real-estate develop- 

 ments for the purpose of the sale of lots. 



The profit to be derived governs in both cases. 

 Greater foresight should be used to insure beauty 

 as well as convenience and comfort. If one 

 would but think a moment it will be evident that 

 such a combination commands a higher price 

 than convenience and comfort alone. It is pos- 

 sible, of course, on a perfectly level plain to devise a 

 square system of lots that will give a picturesque 

 effect by the use of trees and shrubs in a park-like 

 way, each plot indeed being a miniature park. But 

 such conditions rarely prevail and even then, as 

 we have seen in the case of Pine Lawn Cemetery, 

 there are more attractive ways of accomplishing 

 the same result. Each hill and valley, whether 

 large or small, in a park of this character has a 

 definite individuality of its own — ^an outlook, a 

 vista, a charm of contour that may be retained by 

 proper subdivision of land. 



In order to illustrate the application of the 

 above principles it will be helpful to refer to 

 Albemarle Park, built a number of years ago, and 



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