Cemeteries 
voice; and the association of many such 
would make our cemeteries really beautiful 
spots. Now they usually look like stone- 
cutter’s yards on an extended scale. 
I know one rural cemetery near Boston 
where the trustees have taken this matter of 
monuments, as well as the matter of planting, 
into their own hands. A skilful architect 
has made for them a number of tombstone 
designs, some more elaborate than others, 
but all simple enough to be executed by an 
ordinary stone-cutter. Among these designs 
the lot-owner can choose ; and if he cares 
for none of them, he must submit his own 
for the trustees’ sanction. Nor may he plant 
his lot as he pleases. All the planting is 
done under the trustees’ supervision. There 
is none of a formal and none of a showy 
or expensive kind. Wild flowers are en- 
couraged to grow, native trees and shrubs 
are preserved wherever desirable, and hardy 
flowers have been planted where they could 
help the general effect of the landscape. Of 
course no enclosures are permitted around 
the lots, and, while the grass is shorn in the 
occupied parts and all parts are kept appro- 
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