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PARK AND CEMETERY 
Landscape Pictures in Cemetery Lots 
The fine art of making an individual 
landscape picture of the cemetery lot is 
nowhere practiced with more success than 
in the highly developed landscape of 
Woodlawn Cemetery of New York City. 
The many costly mausoleums and monu- 
ments erected by wealthy citizens of New 
York have been framed into the landscape 
by skillful planning and planting so as to 
frame each individual lot into a picture of 
its own. The lot is developed as a land- 
scape problem in itself just as the lawn of 
a fine home is developed. The landscape 
monument is suited to its particular loca- 
tion and where the adjacent landscape and 
planting is in harmony with the lines and 
color and construction of the monument. 
In certain sections lots will be planted to 
give individuality without exclusion from 
the surroundings. Harmony in landscape 
treatment must be secured without inter- 
fering with variety in design of monu- 
mental work. IMonuments must blend with 
the landscape. The planting frames in the 
lot and centers attention on the monument. 
Vistas are secured liy opening up a view 
secluded from its surroundings as befits 
a subject of this character. Every shrub 
and plant here was placed with a purpose 
and every one helps to make the perfect 
landscape picture that results. 
In the Celtic cross memorial illustrated, 
note how the adjacent planting reinforces 
and strengthens the lines of the monument 
and note how the frame of the lot has 
been developed without destroying the 
general effect of the surrounding land- 
scape. 
In the ideal conditions of cemetery de- 
PLANTING TO FRAME LOT AND SET OFF MONUMENT, WOODLAWN CEMETERY, NEW YORK. 
architect plans his planting and lawn de- 
velopment to set off the individual monu- 
mental structure to best advantage; to 
screen it from its surroundings and to de- 
velop a picture that has a character and 
beauty of its own. Planting, grading and 
improvement of the lot are carefully 
carried out that lot, monument and plant- 
ing form a harmonious, unified composi- 
tion. 
A cemetery lot and its monument is just 
as much of a problem in artistic landscape 
development as a public monument or a 
house. The maximum development of 
cemetery beauty and monumental art is 
possible only when the design of the 
through luxuriant planting to an impos- 
ing mausoleum or other structure in the 
background. A striking example of this is 
seen in the mausoleum illustrated here- 
with. By careful landscape work a row 
of mausoleums or monuments will be 
screened and separated from each other by 
a luxuriant planting and monuments of 
different styles brought into one landscape 
picture with special landscape treatment 
for each. 
In the statue monument illustrated here, 
note how the lines and corners of the 
work have been softened by heavy, care- 
fully placed planting and how the work is 
velopment every monument will be de- 
signed for its own particular lot and every 
lot developed to give proper setting to the 
monument. To get the best possible effects 
in cemetery art, the landscape architect, the 
lot owner and the monument designer 
should work carefully together. The ideal 
of having the monument and its surround- 
ings in carefully studied harmony is not by 
any means a dream, for it is being realized 
in large numbers of cases in our leading 
cemeteries. Along the main avenues of 
our best cemeteries landscape pictures arc 
developed with a skill that is as fine as the 
effect secured in the planting of fine homes 
on any of our residence thoroughfares. 
