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found near the large cemeteries, where sorrowing 
relatives give them a brief sketch of the deceased 
and the professional pens an ode for the soul of the 
departed ; a few sous pays the bill. 
Lightning struck the tower at the entrance to 
Cave Hill cemetery, Louisville, Ky., recently, and 
did several hundred dollars worth of damage. A 
marble statue, representing the “Guardian Angel,” 
which surmounted the tower at a height of 1 18 feet, 
was uninjured, but its pedestal was so badly shat- 
tered that a new one will have to be put in. 
Magnolia cemetery. Charleston, S. C. , was 
established in 1850. Since that time two thousand 
lots have been sold and eight thousand interments 
made. The cemetery has a permanent fund of 
$3 5,364, which is accumulated by a deposit of 20 
per cent, of all lot sales. The perpetual care fund 
amounts to $15,265. 
Floral Park cemetery, Binghampton, N. Y., is 
located on a plateau just beyond the city limits. It 
is fifty feet above the surrounding lands and eighty 
feet above the Susquehanna river, and affords a fine 
view of the city and surrounding hilly country. 
The cemetery is under the management of a board 
of nine trustees, who have adopted a set of modern 
rules and regulations for the maintenance of the 
grounds. One-half of the amount received from 
the sale of lots is placed to the credit of the per- 
manent fund. In stormy weather a large tent is 
erected over graves during funerals, for which serv- 
ice no charge is made. A handsome memorial 
chapel has been erected near the entrance to the 
grounds and lot owners have the privilege of using 
it for funeral services without charge. 
The annual report of Woodlawn cemetery. New 
York, for 1892, states that 514 hedges have been 
removed from around lots, leaving but thirty-seven 
lots in the entire cemetery of 400 acres, thus en- 
closed. One hundred and seventy-seven monu- 
ments, estimated at $97,450, and four mausoleums 
at $52,500, were erected. Receipts for lots and 
single interments, $124,350. There were 2,179 
interments, making the total number 42,225. The 
cemetery was opened in 1865. 
At a recent meeting of the trustees of Marion 
cemetery, Marion, Ohio, the resolved to sell no 
lots hereafter without an endowment for perpetual 
care. A uniform price of twenty-five cents a foot 
is now charged throughout the grounds, and of this 
sum 10 cents a foot goes to the perpetual care fund. 
Hints on Rock Gardens. 
Editor Modern Cemetery, 
Your desire to give to the readers of The Modern Ceme- 
tery some suggestions on Rock Gardens, or Rockeries, should 
certainly meet with my sympathy, because I could •* speak of 
danger’s rugged path where I, too, oft have been.” And because 
of my love for these things, I have endured more odium than for 
all my other dissipations combined. 
While building an immense and outlandish boulder wall 
last winter, a lady and gentleman riding by stopped, and the 
gentleman, after asking a great many questions, remarked : “ 1 
suppose you intend to cover those rocks with vines, etc., some- 
time ?” •“ Yes. sir,” I replied, “ that is the intention.’ He says, 
“ Won’t that look elegant ?” “ Elegant !” his wife says, “do you 
A ROCK GARDEN. 
call that elegant ?” Such is fame, and such is the penalty of 
making rock work. 
An incline, or elevated position, will show off rock to the 
best advantage. And if these do not exist naturally, they must 
be created, by depressing the ground in one place, and using the 
material to raise or elevate it in another, finishing off with good 
loam, leaf mould, etc , according to the variety or class of plants 
to be grown. After you have treated all the land intended for 
this use, and all the little hills and valleys look easy and natural 
to the eye., you can then plant your rocks. The amount shown 
out of ground will depend on the size of the material that can be 
obtained. Be careful not to use too many stones — this is the 
hardest part to learn. The idea is to create pockets, or spaces, 
and small rocks are placed to create these, and to keep the soil 
from washing away. Do not fill these pockets too full as to shed 
all the rain. In arrangements of this kind a greater variety of 
plants can be grown than would always survive in a mixed border, 
as the pockets, or spaces, prevent the strong growing plants from 
A BED OF ALPINE FLOWERS. 
robbing their weaker neighbors. When rocks are natural to the 
ground, and stick out occasionally, help nature to show these 
rocks off by removing some of the earth from around them, 
trenching and enriching thoroughly; add a few smaller stones as 
above. This is the happiest arrangement, because man had the 
least to do with it. It is doubtful if any of these things — arti- 
ficially created — look well, conspicuously placed, or in the glar- 
ing sunlight. Trees, and especially evergreens, as a background, 
help such things amazingly. For more particular information 
(in the language of cemeteries), apply to the superintendent on 
the grounds. Timothy McCarthy. 
Swan Point, Providence, R. I. 
