THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
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er, Calvary, Fond du Lac, Wis.; *0. C. Simonds, Grace land, 
Chicago; W. Stone, Pine Grove, Lynn, Mass.; *J. J. Stephens; 
*G. L. Transue, Easton, Easton; H. F. Torrey, Arlington, Jer- 
sey City, N. J.; fj. Gunn, Pine Grove, Whitingsville, Mass.; fW. 
Harris. Uniondale, Allegheny, Pa.; fjohn Dunn, South Laurel 
Hill, Philadelphia; fH. Wilson Ross, Newton, Mass.; JA. B. 
Forest, Oakwood, Raleigh, Va.; fTheodore Elsasser, Westmins- 
ter, Philadelphia; fDr. J. B. Mayer, Hillside, Philadelphia; 
fCharles Fitz George, Greenwood, Trenton, N. J.; JJ. M. Hold- 
en, Mt. Peace, Philadelphia; fJ. C. Hepler, Charles Evans 
Cemetery, Reading; fjohn F. Shapleigh, Cedar Grove, Dor- 
chester, Mass.; f'^W. H. D. Cochrane, Edgewood, Nashua, N. 
H.; fBellett Lawson Jr., Riverside, Norristown; fE. P. Frich, 
Green Mount, Philadelphia; fG. C. Naylor, Riverview, Wil- 
mington, Del.; tJ. K. Bettson, Lafayette, Philadelphia; fGeorge 
Redford, Mt. Vernon. Philadelphia; fD. S. Grissinger, Odd 
Fellows, Philadelphia; fD. C. Penrose, Wilmington and Brandy- 
wine, Wilmington, Del.; f Frank A. Sherman, Evergreen, New 
Haven, Conn.; fJ, C. Knox, Cedar Hill, Frankford; fA. L. 
Smith, West Laurel Hill, Philadelphia; *R. J. Haight, Chicago. 
"Accompanied by Lady. tNew members. 
Are We Going from One Extreme to Another? 
During recent years we have heard much con- 
cerning the adoption of the “Lawn Plan” in ceme- 
teries. It is almost universally conceded that it is 
an improvement over the old plan, and we are 
shown bare lawns dotted here and there with mon- 
uments and headstones as an example of what is 
best. Let us test our theories and practice occasi- 
onally by going to the fountain head. Mr. Strauch 
abolished the fences, hedges, railings, chains, etc., ’ 
formerly used so extensively as boundaries of cem- 
etery lots, and replaced the gravel walks with grass. 
He then planted trees or shrubs arranged singly or 
in groups so as to make a background for monu- 
ments, suitably frame in the best views and make 
a varied outline for the sky and the continuous 
lawn. This he called the “landscape lawn plan.” 
Some of those who design cemeteries seem to for- 
get the first part and regard the lawn as the only 
essential feature. A carefully graded piece of ground 
covered with a growth of grass abundantly watered 
and closely mown pleases the eye with its color and 
the foot with its softness, but it has no more artistic 
merit than a piece of clear sky. Introduce a few 
fleecy clouds in the latter, let them be partly 
in shadow and partly lighted up and colored by 
the setting sun, and we have an effect which paint- 
ers— the best judges of beauty — would be glad to 
imitate on canvas. In the same way, by the intro- 
duction of varied masses of foliage about a lawn in 
an artistic manner, we get light, shade, color, a 
pleasing outline — in a word, beauty. A work of 
art, whether a poem, a painting, a song, a statue 
or a landscape, does not tell all the facts. It leaves 
something to the imagination. Just so an attractive 
section of a cemetery has some portion hidden from 
every point of view. There is a chance for the ex- 
ercise of one’s imagination, and curiosity leads a 
visitor from place to place to observe all the views. 
The monuments are not seen all at once as in an 
open lawn, but each receives attention as it comes 
in sight. There is unity with variety. Nothing 
produces the desired result so quickly and satisfac- 
torily as the judicious use of shrubs. Trees should 
be planted to give shade and to vary the sky line, 
but it takes them much longer to give character to 
a landscape ,j:han it does shrubs. We need both to 
make cemeteries beautiful, to clothe the lawn, and 
to take away the stone-yard effect seen in many 
sections where no planting has been done. 
O. C. Simonds. 
Hardy Herbaceous Plants for Cemeteries. 
Continued from page 68. 
Among the numerous good taller plants the long 
spurred hardy Columbines are exceedingly useful 
for early flowering. Aquilegia Canadensis being 
one of the best, and a later flowering extra long 
spurred yellow one is the most airly graceful of them 
all. Monarda Didyma is desirable because it is able 
to care for itself, its long flowering season and the 
rich red shade of its blossoms; but inmost situations 
its growth is likely to be so rampant as to require 
thinning out every two years to keep it within 
bounds, and it looks best when grown in naturalis- 
tic plantations for it has an air of the highways and 
byways. 
PYRETHRUM ULIGINOSUM.— Courtesy of Gardening. 
