THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
9 
Thoughts on Transplanting. 
Many people ask, when is the proper time to 
plant trees, in the fall or in the spring? 
This is a question which has been asked thou- 
sands of times, and been answered both ways by 
people who have had special success, in the spring 
or fall, as the case may be. 
Now, according to the studies of those who have 
used their eyes and experiences on the subject, one 
time is as good as the other. Trees in full health 
transplanted in the spring go on pushing their leaves 
and making young fibres on the roots as if nothing 
had been done to affect their usual habits. In trees 
as in a human being, health is a great factor in suc- 
cess. A good sound, healthy person who loses a 
finger or even a hand, feels or exhibits no signs of 
the trouble he has gone through. The blood is good 
and sound and goes on healing the wounded parts. 
So with a tree: the spring is the healthy time of 
all nature; all plants are in their best health, and 
they naturally feel less the damage done to them 
than at any other time. 
Planting in the fall also has its benefits, even 
perhaps more so than in the spring. In early fall 
transplanting,^ the leaves are picked off, and the tree 
is again planted. The advantage the -fall planter 
has is this: the tree, we may say, has gone to sleep 
for the winter, the leaves being off, they do not 
need the life giving strength of the roots, which 
possibly may have been injured in the digging, and 
need all their strength for themselves. What does 
it matter if we take the leaves off, instead of waiting 
until they fall off? Does not winter weather some- 
times come early, and again it comes late in the year? 
Two or three weeks make no difference, the trees 
are always prepared, and, “have gone to sleep. ” 
To return to the planting, we seethe tree suffers 
very little or none by the leaves using the strength 
of the tree. Another point is that when spring does 
come, the plant has been made solid in its place, 
by the winter months. 
In the first part of the article we say that it 
makes no difference whether trees are planted in the 
fall or spring. There is one exception in favor of 
fall planting, and that is in the larch family. Lar- 
ches planted in the fall are invariably successful, 
while those planted at other seasons only pull 
through after a hard struggle. 
Evergreens can be transplanted during the sum- 
mer. — Meehans' Monthly for March. 
T congratulate you upon the MODERN CEME- 
TERY, which, in my judgment, is doing an excel- 
lent work . — Barton Mansfield, Pres. Evergreen 
Cemetery. New Haven, Conn. 
•d CEMETERY REPORTS. > 
We have received from Mr. Burton Mansfield, 
president of the Evergreen Cemetery Association 
of New Haven, Conn., a copy of the director’s an- 
nual report from which we extract the following: 
“After a careful consideration of the subject, your directors 
became convinced that they should no longer neglect the estab- 
lishment of a permanent fund for the care of the cemetery 
grounds. This should have been done years ago, for few if any 
of the affairs of the Association are of such great concern. Late 
in the year the directors voted to set aside ten per cent, of the 
receipts from the sale lots for this purpose and allow the same 
to accumulate until the income from other sources shall be suffi- 
cient to meet the expenses which the care and maintenance of 
the grounds involve. 
The necessity of a permanent fund forces itself upon us the 
more we consider it. This is, as you know, distinct from the 
perpetual care fund, to which lot owners contribute for the care 
of their individual lots. The object of this tund is to make pro- 
vision for the support and maintenance of the cemetery in years 
to come, long after many of the present owners shall have passed 
away and the Association shall have ceased, to a considerable 
degree at least, to have a source of income other than this, which 
can be devoted to these purposes. * * * As to the affairs of 
cemeteries in general, we reiterate what we said last year in re- 
gard to Sunday funerals. We believe that they should be abol- 
ished, as far as possible, and it is with pleasure that we notice that 
at the last convention of the cemetery superintendents, a resolu- 
tion expressing this same thought met with hearty approval. 
There is certainly a growing public opinion in favor of this posi- 
tion. In the same connection we may speak of a matter of a 
very kindred nature, viz; burial reform, as it is commonly called. 
Less expense and less display in connection with the ordinary 
burial, than what we so often see now would be more in harmony 
with the quietness and solemnity due to the occasion and be at 
the same time an evidence of good taste, a desirable quality to 
cultivate. 
Your directors think that it would be a very good thing for 
our superintendent to visit other cemeteries in the country, and 
to associate with others similarly engaged, see how they care for 
their several charges and exchange ideas with them. In this 
way he can learn how others solving some of the problems which 
bother him and impart from his own experience that which will 
help others. This is true in regard to the annual conventions of 
the superintendents, of which the next one is to be held at Phila- 
delphia. Our superintendent should be allowed to attend at 
our expense. 
* * * 
Extracts from the annual report of Lakewood 
cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn. Receipts from lot 
sales, $30,606.98. Total receipts from all sources, 
$55,516.55. Expenditures, $30,363.14. 203 lots 
and 157 single graves were sold. The permanent 
improvement fund, which is accumulated by setting 
aside 20 per cent of all lot sales, now amounts to 
$59,593-08. Number of burials during the year, 
636; total number to date, 7,103. To remove the 
possibility of marble yards, or other objectionable 
features being established near the main entrance, 
the association has bought considerable adjacent 
property at an expense of several thousand dollars. 
