THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
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seen it in one. There could be nothing prettier in 
their way than the miniature weeping mulberry trees, 
in the nursery exhibit, each being from four to four 
and one-half feet high and with gracefully drooping 
branches that swept out on all sides on the grass for 
some distance by the time the pretty fruit, with 
which they were well laden, was ripe. The polished 
leaves are distinct and the whole effect most pleas- 
ing. And the recollection of the beds of lovely 
Kadinia Latifolia, (native mountain laurel,) seen 
on the Island last June, makes one long to find a 
similar showing in our parks and home-like modern 
cemeteries. 
Shrubs are largely used in the finishing off 
method followed at Graceland that leaves no raw 
edges. Trees and tall shrubs that grow bare stems 
are in most cases surrounded or bordered, accord- 
ing as they are grown and placed, with those of 
lower habit, sometimes shrubs of several heights 
are used to bring the leafage down to the level of 
roadways or lawns. 
There are charming plantings of wedge shaped 
spaces where roadways diverge; small trees being 
grouped in the wider part of the narrowing division, 
the planting carried on with tall shrubs and finished 
off with the witch hazel and winter or barberries in 
a way so natural that one involuntarily promises 
ones self to pass that way for violets in the spring. 
A nicely rounded border line of low shrubs that 
outlines the curve of a road elsewhere is made en- 
tirely of the neat growing Indian current, green to 
the ground. 
South of the chapel is an excellent example of 
shrubbery banked against a building. The foliage 
of the vine on the wall is carried down to the grass 
by remarkably well chosen and perfectly placed 
shrubs, the building seeming to grow out of them. 
When this bank is white with big snowberries, (spec- 
ies, symphoricarpus racemosus,) it is as satisfactory 
as a planting can be made. 
The small pond is almost hidden by a wealth of 
shrubbery of well balanced irregularity as to height 
and density, like a woodland lakelet set in its copses 
and groves. 
The other pond is treated in a more dignified 
manner as befits its greater size, importance and 
position. 
Here, are well combined bodies of foliage, each 
passing breeze breaking the mass of the Royal Wil- 
lows into waves of soft silvery green; there, open 
glades, but an open vista does not necessitate sud- 
den and unmitigated barrenness, and nearly every- 
where the water line is softened by at least a slight 
fringe of shrubs. 
In this respect the borders of the Wooded Island 
at Jackson Park are artistic in the highest degree. 
The combinations were good everywhere, the 
grouping could scarcely have been improved, the 
proportion was perfect, and there was so much art 
in the omissions. 
That is, where a view from or towards the water 
was left it was in just the right place, yet no one 
felt that it was a made opening. By no means. 
The impressson was that of nature’s planting; 
the height and density of ffhe bordering plantations 
gradually diminished, where they ended no one 
knew, but presently only a tiny islet of tall orna- 
mental grass rose gracefully from the turf, a few 
semi-aquatic things swayed gently at the water’s 
edge and on its surface some pond lily leaves float- 
ing lazily carried the willing eye on to the pictures- 
que or a stately scene beyond. 
Any one who has an ornamental pond and the 
use of shrubs in his intention may well be com- 
mended to the graces of the Wooded Island’s bor- 
der, and to the inspiration of the planting at Grace- 
land. Fanny Copley Seavey. 
The change which has of late taken place in the 
public sentiment concerning the taste and propriety 
of inclosures is earnestly commended to the consid- 
eration of all lot owners. Only a few years since 
an iron railing, an inclosure of posts and chains or 
posts and bars, a hedge or stone coping, was 
deemed the initial step, and first requisite towards 
improvement. Even the family monument was de- 
ferred as matter for subsequent and secondary con- 
sideration. Now, however, in some of the most 
highly improved cemeteries of the country, inclos- 
ures of every kind are prohibited, and it must be 
admitted that the measure is approved by the best 
taste and judgment. Some of the most costly and 
substantial of the earlier styles, such as in their day 
were regarded as things of beauty and fitness — 
have given way to different taste, and it only re- 
mains a question of a little time, when the cum- 
brous coping, the latest device in this direction of 
the useless and in many respects the most objec- 
tional of all inclosures, will be looked upon as a 
striking example of the inappropriate, and as a 
marvel of misdirected expenditure. — Calvary, St. 
Loins, Mo. 
PEPPERIDGE TREES. 
