THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
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young deciduous and evergreen trees, and much 
good shrubbery, all of which will come in nicely in 
reclaiming the old farm recently purchased, and 
which is now being fitted for cemetery purposes by 
plowing, grading, sowing to grass, planting and 
road making. 
A good many summer flowers are supplied by 
the inexpensive method of starting annuals such as 
Phlox Drummondi, Pansies, Verbenas, Salvias, 
etc., in hot beds; a long line of them testify to the 
numbers grown. Cannas, Hollyhocks and Gladioli 
“Wooded Island,” and in certain beautiful plant- 
ings on the terraces, at the World’s Fair, will be 
glad to see their use become more general. 
At all available points in the old grounds, bits of 
tasteful planting are seen which give promise of 
even better things on the new ground where con- 
trol can be exercised from the outset. 
No new copings, fences, or hedges are allowed 
in Calvary and lot owners are encouraged to remove 
old ones, as well as vigorously discouraged in the 
matter of setting up any useless and meaningless 
stones. Good monuments, those 
that mean something, and teach 
mankind lessons worth remember- 
ing are heartily welcomed. 
Calvary abounds in old histor- 
ic names, as Knapp, Lucas, Chou- 
teau, Benoist, VonPuhl, etc., 
but no monument in it receives 
the attention that is given the 
ENTRANCE AT 13ROADWAY. 
are also used, and some good hardy 
herbaceous plants, as Japanese Irises, 
Clematises and Paeonies are well 
established in some parts of the 
grounds. In a small valley from 
which the ground rises rather abrupt- 
ly on all but one side is a lakelet. 
The steep slope directly behind it, 
as seen from the drive, is thickly set 
with evergreens which, when larger, 
will carry out the desired effect of a 
tiny mountain lake. At present this 
plantation is at a stage that draws from 
Mr. Brazill glances of mingled pride 
and despair such as one fancies that Mrs. Robbins is 
still bestowing on the piney sand hill she describes so 
graphically in her “Rescue of an old Place.” At a 
good point on the lower, more cultivated side of 
this little body of water, it is pleasant to note that 
ornamental grasses have been given a place, and 
even in winter they have a charm. Eulalia Japonica, 
Zebrina and E. Gracillima, as well as Erianthus 
Ravenna look at home in this location. Those 
who saw the delightful effects produced by these 
hardy grasses, last fall, on the shores of the 
VIEW OF TERRACE NEAR BROADWAY ENTRANCE. 
unpretending one that marks the resting place 
of Gen. Wm. T. Sherman. It was designed by the 
General himself and is a simple head stone on which 
are carved crossed flags that droop in heavy folds 
on either side of the inscription which merely re- 
cords the name and facts of birth and death. Above 
the flags appears the cartridge box inscribed with 
the famous “Forty Rounds”^ — the well-known 
motto on the badge of Sherman’s Army Corps. 
This is a departure from the stereotyed monu- 
mental style prevalent at Calvary, (as indeed, in 
