THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
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I. AWN AT DOSORIS. 
Cemetery Planting. III. 
To return to ligneous plants, there could be no 
more delightful or fitting cemetery ornament than a 
bank of Kalmia Latifolia, or native Mountain 
Laurel, in full bloom as it is seen in the mountains 
of East Tennessee, Virginia and elsewhere. Kalmias 
blossomed on the Wooded Island at the Fair about 
the last of May. 
It would seem that a hardy small flowered 
Clematis, ( C. flammula Avould probably be the best, ) 
might be planted among Kalmias to supply a sec- 
ond crop of flowers. If C. flammula was used the 
second season of bloom would last all summer and 
be followed by an ornamental feathery, red starred 
envelope that would outlast many bleak wintry 
storms despite its fragile appearance. It grows so 
openly that it would not seem likely to be injurious 
to the small shrubs, espejcially if the old wood is 
kept cut out, but if they would not bear it there are 
larger ones that would. 
It seems to me that wherever Lilacs, Syringas 
and Snowballs are used, (and no one wants to do 
without them,) it would be well to plant something 
to serve as summer drapery to make up for their 
lack of beauty after the flowering season. 
A hardy herbaceous vine would be the right 
thing, and nothing could be better than Clematis 
Jackmanii, and for variety C. paniculata, where its 
white flowers in the fall would make a pleasing 
note in the general arrangement or [composition. 
Vines are excellent material and can be util- 
ized in various ways. Hall’s Honeysuckle, (Lon- 
icera Halleana) would be delightful in some 
locations if left to assume any shape it liked. In 
this connection the new hardy creeping Japanese 
rose (R. VVichuariana) deserves special mention. 
Its foliage is so very pretty that it is worth growing 
for that alone, but it also bears lovely little roses — 
miniature wild roses in shape, but pure white. In 
leaf, flower and habit it resembles the Cherokee 
rose, of the South, and is very like it but on a daint- 
ier scale. This Japanese rose, as grown in the rose 
garden at the World’s Fair, spread its vines out flat 
on the ground in all directions like a true creeper, 
but I was told by Mr. Thorpe, Chief of Floriculture, 
that it could easily be made to assume the cushion 
or mound shape into which the Cherokee rose builds 
itself when isolated on the grass. 
These dark mounds are so numerous and have 
so much character that they are a marked feature 
of the scenery of the lower Mississippi River. They 
grow in perfection near the water in open sunny 
situations far from trees and shrubs, which suggests 
letting their little Japanese relation, (the Cherokee 
rose is a native of China,) have a chance to become 
an American mound builder in the north on the 
grassy border of lakes or streams. R. Wichuariana 
is very hardy. 
