THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
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ing hardy herbaceous perennials among shrubs. 
Some of the most pleasing features of the landscape 
border of the Wooded Island at" the Fair were se- 
cured by this method. 
The shrubberies contained enough perennials to 
furnish a running accompaniment of flowers quite 
through the season. There were campanulas in va- 
riety, C. platycodon and C. turbinata, being the 
best because of their continuous flowering. There 
were Delphiniums, Columbines, and Oriental pop- 
pies of which one blossom makes as great a show as 
half a dozen ordinary flowers; big mats of the pret- 
ty, rather low-growing, Saponaria Ocymoides, Rose 
Campion, English Daisies, bright scarlet Geum Coc- 
cineum, and clumps of the tall rich blue Polemo- 
nium coeruleum, all of these were placed at or near 
the border line where the shrubberies met the close- 
ly shorn lawns. To these many others could be 
added. Phlox Subulata or moss pink, and the white 
form, P. Sub. Alba, being especially good either as 
mats for covering the bare ground under larger 
plants or as border plants where lawns merge into 
shrubberies. 
Farther out among the shrub plantations rose 
spikes of crimson vervain (there should also have 
been the splendid color of our native cardinal flower. 
Lobelia Cardinalis, ) all growing in scattered colo- 
nies; and here and there the beautiful red Bee Balm, 
(Monardia Dydima) brightened the border for 
weeks. 
These showy colors were, however, introduced 
sparingly after nature’s woodland fashion. The 
border was intended to represent natural growths, 
and did so to perfection. There are copses and 
thickets, certain corners and spaces, where such 
treatment would be a charming addition to ceme- 
tery planting. And where they occur the style and 
coloring can be carried through to the end of the 
season with the many varieties of Golden Rod and 
Asters. In just such situations I should like to see 
the season open with carpets of violets and racemes 
of dainty “squirrel corn” swaying gently above 
their rosettes of filmy foliage. They would both be 
lovely crowding around the feet of Berberry and 
Witch Hazel bushes. Indeed I would bring in the 
whole troop of wild flowers, everything that would 
thrive, from ferns up, should have its appropriate 
place and setting. If there is any better promise 
of an awakening from the wintry sleep of death, than 
that furnished by the fragile wild flowers of spring 
lifting their delicate forms at the first breath that 
comes from the erstwhile frozen lips of winter — I 
dont know what it is, unless, indeed, it is the cro- 
cuses crowding each other to see out the mo- 
ment the door is unlocked. 
If some one wants a unique and lovely decora- 
tion for a cemetery plot let them have a smooth 
carpet of sward and throughout the space let snow- 
drops, crocuses, and Poets Narcissus star the spring 
grass. 
Lilacs are so charming when in flower and so 
lacking in charm at all other times that their inat- 
tractiveness should be disguised, or mitigated, by 
careful treatment. I have already suggested the 
use of hardy herbaceous vines as a summer drapery 
for them, and in the interval between their own 
flowering and the growth of their summer garments 
attention might be diverted by banking Paeonies 
about them for an intermediate season of bloom, 
and, for variety. Day Lilies (Funkias) might be 
put to the same purpose. 
Fanny Copley Seavey. 
CEMETERY NOTES. 
The Evergreen Cemetery Association of New 
Haven, Conn., is creating a chapel fund by yearly 
contributions from the receipts from lot sales, etc. 
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The enforcement of the new rules of the Laurel 
Grove Cemetery, Paterson, N. J., relating to the 
sodding of graves and restriction of flowerbeds has 
called forth a vigorous protest from the lot owners. 
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The tomb of Lady Anne Grimston, at Tewin, in 
Hertfordshire, has been for years an object of inter- 
est fop tourists. Long limbs of ash and sycamore 
trees have shot up from the vault below and pierced 
through the stone and twined around the iron work. 
The current tale is that Lady Anne was an unbe- 
liever, and asserted before her death that if the 
scriptures were true then seven ash trees would 
spring from her vault. 
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It is a good sign when local papers show an in- 
terest in cemetery affairs. The subject is one in 
which every family should be interested, yet it is 
too frequently neglected by the press. Cemetery 
officials who are alive to the growing interest in 
cemeteries, should in every way possible cultivate 
the good will of their local press. It is the surest 
and readiest means of creating and fostering an 
active sentiment in the community, by which prog- 
ress can alone be sustained. 
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During the past few years tombstones in the 
Schuyler, Nebraska, Cemetery have become much 
discolored during the summer. At one time it was 
charged that a local dealer was using some acid to 
cause the discolorations to discourage patronage 
of foreign dealers. Later developments disclosed 
that the injury arose from water used in sprinkling 
