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Plate 



EA'ergreens for Cemeteries 



Plate 17C. A Novel Idea 



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LANDSCAPE GARDENING 



EVERGREENS FOR CEMETERIES 



Evergreens are good landscape material for cemeteries and 

 gardens. They seem to diversify the scenery and possess much 

 individual beauty. The above view consists of Dwarf Mhugo 

 Pine, Thuya Hoveyii, Thuya Siberica, Spruce, White Pine and 

 Scotch Pine. The three slender trees in the distance are Thuya 

 Pyramidalis. 



There is an article on cemetery landscape gardening on page 

 25 which will well repay a careful reading. I have listed in that 

 article a number of trees and shrubs suitable for that class of 

 gardens, and I make a special appeal to cemetery boards for the 

 adoption of softer tones in the decorative planting of burial lots. 



A NOVEL IDEA 



Galvanized iron pipe makes a light, airy, inconspicuous frame- 

 work for a rose-arbor. The standards are set in cement, and wires 

 are strung between them and over the top cross-bars. The chief 

 merit of a frame of this kind is that it costs very little and it is 

 almost invisible. A combination of vines and rose-bushes is best. 



One of the finest effects of this class that I ever saw is in a 

 small city in Minnesota. It is in a fine pubic park on the banks 

 of the Mississippi. There is a pronounced declivity towards the 

 water and the ground is terraced in formal lines. Some of the 

 walks are covered with an arbor like this and the arbor itself has 

 a canopy of the Ampelopsis Quinquefolia. 



In the city of Munich, Germany, there is a very peculiar 

 and fantastic use made of this distinctively American climbing 

 vine. It is trained on chains. The chains are suspended between 

 posts and the sprays hang in graceful festoons. There are many 

 beautiful garden scenes around Munich, but few of them impressed 

 me more than this simple use of the American Woodbine. As I 

 looked upon the well-known vine it gave me a feeling of "home 

 at last," like unto that experienced by the returning traveler when 

 lie sees again the folds of our sacred flag. 



