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Mr. Strauch has devoted his whole life to the study and work of landscape gar- 
dening, having spent many years in Vienna, Berlin, Luxemburg and Regents Park, 
London, under some of the best instructors the world ever saw. He will also tell 
you in his inimitable way that he was compelled to work for Louis Phillipe on the 
fortifications of Paris, “ but ” he says “ My countrymen have taken the trouble to 
go there and tear them down.” When he came to America, his first work was the 
remodeling of R. B. Bowler’s place, which he left to take charge of Spring Grove 
near by, but only upon conditions that he should be allowed to carry out his views 
of changing the prevailing idea of a cemetery, i. e., a combined, neglected flower 
garden, and an unlimited number of profane and ridiculous memorials and toys, 
often crowded together until it resembles a marble worker’s show lot more than a 
City of the Dead. His ideas of a rural cemetery, as typified by Spring Grove, are not 
only appreciated by the people of Cincinnati, but are accepted by competent judges 
