OUR SOLDIERS' GRAVES. 



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Explanation of Plates. 



All the photographs were taken in July 191 7. 



Fig. 1. A portion of the cemetery at Varennes, near Acheux. The burials 

 are in trenches and the photograph shows the trenches covered with mixed dwarf 

 annuals. As this cemetery was not very far from the line when the photograph 

 was taken in 1917, it was not possible to sow annuals in any definite colour 

 scheme. 



Fig. 2. A view in the cemetery at Bailleul. The burials here are in double 

 trenches. The space between the cross was sown with taller annuals, such as 

 Sweet Peas, Malope, Cornflowers, dwarf Sunflowers, &c. On the graves were long 

 stretches of annuals, each stretch being of one kind and separated from the 

 next by a broad band of grass or mignonette. The annuals were bordered by a 

 broad verge of grass. 



Fig. 3. St. Sever, Rouen. The trenches here are double as at Bailleul and 

 sown with stretches of dwarf annuals separated by hedgerows of taller annuals 

 between the crosses. Grass is now being sown as a general ground covering and 

 a rose-bush planted at the foot of each cross. The hedgerows are being planted 

 with Yews, Persian Lilac, Berberis stenophylla, Philadelphus Lemoinei, Roses 

 etc., each hedge being of one kind of plant. 



Fig. 4. Forceville. About one-third of the grave area next the cross is 

 sown with dwarf annuals, such as Alyssum maritimum, Candytuft, pink 

 Eschscholzias, &c, the other two-thirds being grass. 



Fig. 5. Etaples. The cemetery is screened from the road by the bank of 

 blown sand covered with the Maritime Pine. The soil of the cemetery is sticky 

 clay over chalk and covered by sand. As the prevailing ground colour is yellow, 

 the annuals used were mainly blue, mauve, and white, such as Alyssum 

 maritimum, mauve and white Linarias, Phacelia, cream Eschscholzia, single 

 mauve and white Asters, &c. 



Fig. 6. Couin. The cemetery is in a beautiful apple orchard. All the graves 

 are separate and sown with annuals near the cross, the rest of the grave being 

 covered with grass. The annual Chrysanthemum 'Morning Star,' mauve and 

 white Lychnis, Alyssum maritimum, Godetia, branching blue Larkspur, Togetes 

 pumila and other annuals made a beautiful display here. 



