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THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
Cemetery Planting. — V. 
Among the choicest 
of the hardy perennials 
are the Irises, German 
Siberian, and finest of 
all, Japanese. Classic 
blossoms these, more 
beautiful to the majority 
of flower lovers than 
Orchids and certainly 
more human notwith- 
standing the so-called 
“laughing” orchid and 
EULALIA GRACILLIMA UNIVITATTA. For Ol'cllid fa- 
ces are only masks — Pansies have the real faces. The 
Japanese Irises like lots of moisture and would be 
at home fringing a little stream or lake. 
The Lemon Lily, (Hemerocallis Flava) is a 
flower that should abound in cemeteries; it thrives 
best when left long undisturbed. Then there are 
the hardy tall Phloxes; masses of the pure white 
ones, or the clear red ones, that have come to take 
the place of the old time disagreeable magenta shades, 
would be well placed in the vicinity of shrubs that 
flower early, or interspersed among Pseonies. 
Pyrethrum LHiginosum, and, for yellow Cor- 
eopsis lanceolata and C. tinctora are among the best 
of the late flowering perennials, and last of all, as 
well as best, are the Japanese Anemones — the pink 
ones are pretty but the white ones when well grown 
are as lovely as flowers can- be. 
Of the decorative plants that are particularly good 
for cemeteries are the big reed, Arundo Donax; 
Giant Parsnip (Heracleum Giganteum. ) Yucca 
filamentosa and better still, that chaste plant. Yuc- 
ca Augustifolia which builds itself into picturesque 
groups that present the same appearance the year 
around except while in flower. And in connection 
with hardy perennials the ornamental grasses should 
not be forgotten. 
Eulalia Japonica and E. Jap. Zebrina are per- 
haps the best known and are both good, but the 
graceful fountain-like form of E. Gracillima Univit- 
atta is even better and is especially effective for 
blending a shrubbery plantation with a lawn, or for 
softening the line where lawn and water meet. 
And this brings us to Aquatics; than which there 
is nothing more satisfactory nor charming in the 
vegetable kingdom. Those that are hardy should 
certainly be seen in cemetery ponds and lakes, and 
the slight trouble and expense of starting water 
poppies and water hyacinths each spring is recom- 
pensed by such a wealth of beauty that those who 
try them once will have them always. 
There is in planting a place for everything as 
well as something good for every location, and the 
best way to study artistic planting is to note Na- 
ture’s arrangements under various conditions. Not 
to the end of reproducing exactly what is seen, or 
even using the same materials, for neither may be 
suited to the conditions at hand. But the seeing, 
comprehending eye will find suggestions in every 
combination of tree, vine and shrub; in every charm- 
ing tangle, along each country lane; beside the way- 
side spring, the woodland walk, the winding stream, 
and in the quiet meadow. 
And those to whom: 
“A primrose by a river’s brim 
A yellow primrose was to him. 
And It was nothing more” — 
have no part or parcel in what we have had to say 
in these papers, and happily of that sort there are 
none among our readers. 
Fanny Copley Seavey. 
Ornamental Cemetery Monuments Considered as Trade 
Fixtures. 
“Fixtures” have been defined as “those things, 
which personal in their nature, become realty by 
reason of their annexation to the soil, such annexa- 
tion being made by some one having an interest in 
the soil.” Trade fixtures were the first which the 
law permitted to be removed to the injury of the 
owner of the soil. In the case of the Oakland Cem- 
etery Company v. Bancroft, recently before the Su- 
preme Court of Pennsylvania, (28 Atlantic Report- 
er 1021,) the principal question for adjudication 
was whether a certain ornamental monument was a 
trade fixture, so as to determine the ownership of 
certain copings, base, and marble statue levied on as 
the property of the Mt. Auburn Cemetery Company, 
under execution issued on a judgment against it in 
favor of the defendant Bancroft, and claimed by the 
Oakland Cemetery Company under a sheriff’s 
deed executed pursuant to a foreclosure sale of the 
land on which such monument was erected, and 
constituting the grounds of the Mt. Auburn Ceme- 
tery Company. While this last mentioned compa- 
ny was the owner of the cemetery referred to, a 
burial lot was inclosed by a stone curbing, and a 
monument was erected on the ground, consisting 
of a stone foundation extending down below the 
frost line, and upon this foundation a marble base 
was placed, surmounted by a marble shaft, and up- 
on the shaft the statue in question was erected. 
The whole of the structure was cemented together, 
and constituted a solid mass. The entire work, in- 
cluding the curbing, was built by the cemetery 
company for the ornamentation of the grounds, and 
manifestly was intended to be a permanent part of 
the cemetery property. Under these circumstances, 
the court holds it too plain for argument that the 
articles levied upon in execution in this case as per- 
sonal property were a part of the realty, and could 
in no sense be regarded as personal property, and 
consequently could not be removed as a trade fix- 
ture. 
