THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
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value of such sum, and the interest accruing from 
the same to be applied by the said trustees in keep- 
ing testator’s lot in said cemetery grounds in good 
and proper condition, making such needed repairs 
as might be required from time to time during the 
several seasons of the year, to both fences and 
grounds, as shall be demanded, this trust to be and 
remain in perpetual continuance. This is different 
from a bequest of a fund to an executor, to be used 
to keep the testatrix’s burial plot in good condition, 
which was held to be void in re Fisher’s Estate 
(Surr.) 8 N. Y. Supp. 10, under the above statute 
against perpetuities. Here the bequest is to the 
corporation, and according to the foregoing opinion 
the statute specifically makes such a bequest 
lawful. 
A GROUP OF ALDERS. CUT LEAF MAPLE. 
Notes from Graceland. 
A short stop in the sulphurous atmosphere of 
the train sheds of a great railway terminal, followed 
by the dreariness and squalor that invariably line a 
railway route on its way through cities, there a flash 
of scarlet salvias against the grass, and finally a glad 
glimpse of green trees. A step through a vine-clad 
gateway and one feels that turmoil and hard places 
have drifted out of reach and that ways of pleasant- 
ness are at hand. 
Graceland is, in the main, like a quiet, well con- 
ducted, tasteful home. If ostentation and preten- 
tiousness are there it is under protest, and as far as 
control goes ones finds no lapses from good taste 
The landscape effects are so good, the art with which 
every tree and plantation has been chosen and placed 
so nearly perfect, that one forgets that brains and 
brawn have brought it all about. 
It seems natural. There is a reason for this feel- 
ing in that the planting has been done by rules 
learned through careful loving study of nature’s pic- 
tures, and her methods of making them. Trees and 
shrubbery grow on unmolested, as pruning, in the ac- 
cepted sense, is not practiced at Graceland. Dead 
branches are removed, that is all. But to produce 
the series of landscape pictures to be seen there, art 
and taste, as well as judgment and knowledge, have 
been brought to bear in the selection of every tree 
and shrub, in every combination of them in the 
various plantations, and in the relation of groups 
and single specimens to each other. The pictures 
are careful compositions. 
The most has been made of all irregularities of 
the surface, the treatment being such that a slight 
elevation becomes in effect a hill; much after the 
Japanese method of making a landscape of great di- 
versity of level and variety of scope within the space 
of a few feet, by judicious arrangement of surface, 
placing of buildings, and planting. 
The highest elevation is used as a site for the 
beautiful chapel of Waupaca granite, a warm red- 
dish stone which is in harmony with the surround- 
ings, and which shows when polished a texture, 
color and marking almost equal to some precious 
stones. Near the building are some good elm trees, 
among the largest ever transplanted, add dignity to 
the composition and add to the general effect. These 
together with some still larger ones set out in an- 
other part of the grounds are felt as a domi- 
nant feature of the landscape from all parts 
