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THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
A BEAUTIFUL BIT OP PLANTING. 
Shrubbery. 
Well placed plantings of carefully selected shrubs 
are coming to be more and more appreciated as 
decorations for home grounds, parks and cemeteries. 
In usefulness and beauty they are unexcelled, 
but that their use is often abused most suburban 
enclosures, (one feels that “gardens” would be a 
misnomer,) bear witness; nearly every one being 
spotted with a strangely ill-assorted, inappropriate 
collection of them. Often the assemblage is so 
motley that one feels no wonder at their failure to 
harmonize. Even their individual beauty is in some 
cases lost by their poor position and surroundings. 
But a thicket, a coppice or a border of well 
chosen and well grown shrubs placed where it be- 
longs, that is to say where it seems naturally to fill 
a need, complete an arrangement, is another thing 
and one than which nothing is more pleasing. And 
if the art of pleasing is the art of living, it is part of 
out of door art to place beautiful growing things so 
that they may grow in beauty. 
There is much to be learned in making such 
compositions, but with the excellent horticultural 
journals now available no one need despair, neither 
the class that has the artistic taste that is necessary, 
nor the one that has the practical knowledge of 
making things grow that is quite as necessary. And 
good object lessons in planting that combine taste 
and knowledge are accessible to many. 
The landscape gardening of the World’s Fair, 
especially the design and planting of the Wooded 
Island, must have enlightened a large number of 
those whom it delighted. But it must be borne in 
mind that the planting there was to the end of se- 
curing good effects in a very short time, and that 
the choice of plants was not what it would have 
been had the necessities been less exacting. Such 
planting lacks the element of permanence that is de- 
sirable in nearly all locations but perhaps especially 
in cemeteries, so that only a part of the shrubs used 
on the Island would be suitable in such locations. 
At the same time some of the things used there 
would serve such a purpose admirably. 
And no better object lessons in designing and 
planting water landscape than those of the Island 
can be cited, while probably no one will question 
the desirability of introducing water landscape into 
every cemetery where it is not a natural feature. 
For object lessons that have the double advan- 
tage of permanence and more age, those who can 
visit Graceland Cemetery, (Chicago,) will find all 
that can be desired, and Mr. Simonds is constantly 
devising and working out new schemes of beauty. 
Among the best of the small trees and larger 
shrubs used there are pepperidge and thorn trees, 
lilacs, syringas, bush honeysuckles, elders, common 
sumach, several viburnums includingthe bush cran- 
berry, and two or three dogwoods including cornns 
panicnlata and the very effective C. sanguinea. 
As seen on the Wooded Island the cut leaf su- 
mach would be admirable planted with the common 
variety. It branches and grows lower, and its deep- 
ly cut fern like foliage would be in excellent con- 
trast, while bearing a family resemblance, to the 
plain leaved sort that would make the combination 
particularly pleasing. 
Of the lower growing shrubs used advantag- 
eously at Craceland, the most noticable, (at least in 
the fall,) are barberries both green and purple 
leaved, snow berries, witch hazel, Indian currant, 
spirea crenata, the lower cornuses, wild roses and 
rosa rugosa, the Japanese wild rose which bears 
such large fruits. But this list would be largely in- 
creased, (as would that of taller kinds,) by going 
through the cemetery with a view to noting all the 
good things that take turns in calling attention to 
themselves through the cycle of the seasons. Many 
of them, indeed, being decorative at more than one 
stage, notably those varieties that show flowers in 
spring or summer followed by lovely fruitage and 
then lengthening their season of attractiveness by an 
Indian summer of gay foliage, and not even then 
gloomily settling down to a winter of ugly discon- 
tent but brightening things up by their bright col- 
ored, highly polished bark. 
Some of the lower growing hardy shrubs used 
on the Island that might well be added to this list 
are Cassia Marylandica, w'hich was beautifully 
green and thrifty throughout the hot and very dry 
summer of the Fair, and is pretty when in flower, 
and the delicately lovely, although hardy, Tamarax 
Africans which is so distinct and desirable in both 
foliage and flower as to seem an acquisition in 
cemetery planting, yet I do not ever recall having 
