THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
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stones, including the walk, is 17 feet, and in the summer 
time, when the flowers and the myrtle are at their best, 
it is a pleasing spot; nothing unsightly is allowed. A 
large number of graves are planted and cared for by an 
annual payment in advance, and the revenue derived 
from the care of the myrtle graves and those planted 
with flowers is sufficient to pay for the labor of caring 
for each section during the season, which are kept in 
good order. During the year r892 the sales of single 
graves was nearly one a day. A large class of our most 
respectable and worthy citizens are accommodated with 
this system, and the interest they manifest in their care 
is commendable and far greater than that of many of 
the lot holders. A good, well located, carefully man- 
aged single grave section should be in every cemetery, 
and is an addition to it, for there is no class of people 
that appreciate what is done for them more than the 
proprietors of the single grave sections. 
The following rules govern our sections: 
No more than two adults, or one adult and two 
children under ten years of age, will be allowed to be 
interred in one grave. 
Whenever a grave shall become vacant by the re- 
moval of the body or bodies therein, the land shall re- 
vert back to the corporation. But in case the owner 
thereof become a purchaser of a lot in the cemetery, the 
original price for the grave shall be allowed in part pay- 
ment for the lot. The graves are not transferable. 
No enclosures nor posts will be permitted in any of 
the single grave sections. 
John G. Barker. 
Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Mass. 
Hardy Herbacious Plants for the Cemetery. 
THE PLANTAIN LILIES. 
F0NKIA SUB-l.O.<D.ATA OR PUNTAI.V LILY. 
These are handsome hardy border plants, well 
worthy of more consideration than they usually re- 
ceive. They have ornamental foliage, some finely 
variegated, when not in flower, exceedingly showy when 
in flower, showing to best advantage in considerable 
groups and forming a fine feature along with other suit- 
able plants in rockeries or sloping banks, or even in a 
mass of some extent on the open lawn with the grass 
growing right up to their leaves. It is hardly a single 
grave plant, but rather to be used in general ornamen- 
tation. 
The genius is known botanically as Funkia, named 
after a German botanist, all so far as known are natives 
of China and Japan, embracing eight species and some 
garden varieties. One under the name of F. grandi- 
flora has been for a long time under cultivation in this 
country, the flowers are very fragrant,and are pure white, 
four inches long, bearing some twelve or fourteen on a 
scape or stalk. Time of flowering from July to Septem- 
ber. Leaves ovate eight to nine inches in length by 
four to five inches broad, sometimes known as F. 
japonica. Others with white flowers are, lancefolia or 
lanceleaved, flowers one to one and one-half inches 
long on stalks scarcely a foot high flowering in August. 
Leaves four to five inches long, lance shaped. A 
variety, albo-marginata, both leaves and flowers 
August larger and each leaf variegated finely with 
white that renders it additionally attractive as a border 
plant. Sieboldtiana has white flowers with a pale lilac 
tinge two inches long coming in June, ten to fifteen on 
a flower spike. Leaves ten to twelve inches broad and 
quite glaucus. Sub-cordata, flowers white, four inches 
long, often fifteen flowers on a stalk in August. Leaves 
pale green, six to nine inches long by three to five in- 
ches broad. The other species have flowers not so con- 
spicuous, the best being fortunei pale lilac, and ovata 
bluish lilac, longest known in gardens along with 
grandiflora. The character of the roots are tuberous, 
leaves dying down in the fall, easily divided by a di- 
vision of the roots in the spring, do best left a con- 
siderable time without removing. 
There is another closely allied group, indeed some- 
times classed with these, under the name of Hemero- 
callis or Day Lily, with orange or yellow flowers, most- 
ly natives of Europe, that except in the wildwood part 
of a cemetery can scarcely be called good cemetery 
plants. 
EARLY FLOWERING HARDY PLANTS. 
The modern cemetery is something in the way of a 
people’s park as an attraction after the winter is over. 
Almost before the trees begin to leave out there are 
many hardy herbacious plants, flowering at the time of 
the spring bulbs, that may be made a great attraction. 
They are mostly humble growing plants and harmon- 
ize well with crocus, snowdrops, tulips and other similar 
bulbs, and like them look well either growing thickly 
out of the grass or in patches, under or bordering trees 
and shrubbery. The following are examples and even 
though some are but wild flowers, they should be 
planted in large irregular groups thick enough to be 
effective, never as isolated single plants. 
Phlox subulata, ground or moss pink, flowers pink, 
purple or rose color, sometimes white, does best in a 
dry sandy or rocky soil, often in flower in April. Two 
other species divaricata and bifida come a trifle later 
with bluish or purple flowers. Of the Erythroniums or 
Dogtooth violets, the Americanum has leaves beauti- 
fully dotted and marbled with violet and white. The 
true Dogtooth violet of Europe, dens-canis, has purp- 
lish, rose or whiteish flowers, leaves blotched with 
purplish brown. The grandiflorum, also a North 
