Art Out-of-Doors 
tion, bidding for public patronage by means 
of costly horticultural establishments and 
verbose advertisements of their floral re- 
sources and achievements. All this is 
wrong — wrong from the point of view of 
good sense, from the point of view of true 
sentiment, and from the point of view of 
art. 
The true ideal for the making of an 
American cemetery, whether large or small, 
is this : That spot should be selected which 
has the greatest natural charms in the direc- 
tion of peacefulness of effect and the harmony 
which means variety in unity. Its features 
should be as carefully preserved as possible 
in laying out the walks and drives, and 
these should not be more numerous than is 
actually required for purposes of burial and 
of visiting the graves. Such planting as is 
needful should be done in a way to com- 
plete the existing kind of beauty, and ac- 
centuate, not disturb, the natural character 
of the spot. No costly exotics or showy 
flower-beds, and no formal plantations of 
any kind, should be allowed : they are out 
of keeping alike with the kind of beauty 
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