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THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
Mimulus Cardinalis and Lobelia Cardinalis (the 
first sometime called Monkey flower and the latter 
well known as Cardinal flower,) are good in rather 
damp partly shaded situations; they are' hardy and 
beautiful in color. The Mimulus does quite well in 
any location even when rather dry, but the Cardi- 
nal flower must have moisture. 
Polemonium is another good one for the wild, or 
naturalistic border as it seems like a wild flower. 
It sends its flower stalks up some two feet above a 
full rosette of handsome foliage that is fresh, green 
and luxuriant in summer even when furnished but 
little water — it does better; however, when it gets 
more. 
The soft gray tone of Rose Campion is good at 
all times, but the color of its flowers tends so strong- 
ly towards magenta that it requires nice handling 
to prevent a war of colors. The safest plan is to 
keep it well away from other flowers unless white 
ones — they are the floral peacemakers. 
Eringenum Purpureum and E. Americana are 
handsome plants in a style quite unlike all other 
perennials. Their flowers do not amount to very 
much, but in form and colorthe plants are effective 
when grown in large groups. The stems and leaves 
of the terminal shoots are of an odd metallic blue 
tone that is unusual if not unknown elsewhere in 
vegetation. 
Coreopsis lanceolata is invaluable as a summer* 
bloomer, and so are the hardy perennial Gailliard- 
ias — G. grandiflora being especially good. 
Anthemis tinctoria is another desirable yellow 
flower for midsummer, while Veronica Spicata is a 
good blue one, and Platycodons both blue and white 
should not be missing for they are at their best when 
no other blossoms of their size are found. Two of 
the best tall hardy Phloxes are Queen, which is 
white, and the beautiful clear red Lothair. They 
are finest when massed in large numbers and so used 
are extremely satisfactory. And there is nothing 
better than Acolia ptomica to furnish snow drifts of 
bloom in midsummer. 
For late flowering nothing excels Pyrethrum 
Uliginosum and white Japan Anemones, (the pink 
variety of the latter is also good,) they are both 
white, and of white flowers there can never be too 
many in cemeteries, nor in gardens either. 
Elimus glaucus is a hardy ornamental grass 
of merit. It is in its prime before the fall grasses 
are in plume, and it is graceful in form and good in 
color at all times. 
The three Eulalias are now so well known and 
appreciated by all who are interested in decorative 
planting that their good qualities need not be de- 
scribed, it is sufficient to say that those who have 
not tried them should get them forthwith. 
Fanny Copley Seavey. 
Some Parasitic Growths and Recipes for their Removal.^ 
“That we find out the cause of this effect; 
Or rather say the cause of this defect, 
For this effect defective comes by cause, 
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Perpend.” — Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2. 
Prefatory Note. — An amputation cannot be 
made a pleasant operation though the life of the 
patient may depend upon it. Before applying the 
knife we beg that the sufferer will freely voice his 
agony through these columns, and the surgeon 
pledges himself to apply soothing lotions after the 
operation is over. 
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Was it Prof. Tyndal who said, “Too exuberant 
life develops the conditions of death”? So a pheno- 
menal success generates the causes of failure. 
In a previous paper we noted the marvellously 
rapid evolution, from the primitive graveyard, of 
the modern cemetery. We wish now to call atten- 
tion to some parasitic growths that have struck root 
in that success, and which, we fully believe, have 
become a serious menace to the parent body. 
Minor among these is the Florist whose wire 
frames still hold together the faded and tattered 
remnants of his “Gates Ajar.” Of himself he is not 
intolerable; it is when he joins forces with the 
Taxidermist, and leaves the ghastly remains of the 
symbol of the Holy Spirit to moult its feathers in 
pitiful decay that he becomes intolerable and means 
should be found to suppress him. 
More mischievous than he is the undert , we 
mean — the Funeral Director whose chief function 
in the order of things seems to be to devise and en- 
courage new means of that very ostentation which 
we should most carefully eschew. 
It is true that the cemetery management is in no 
degree responsible for him; but it is also true that 
in the public thought he gets himself involved with 
it — that he is helping to create the atmosphere 
through which the cemetery is already beginning to 
be viewed. Though he is rapidly working out his 
own I'cdiictio ad absiirdiivi, a protest from our cem- 
eteries against him and most of his works would be 
a valuable adjunct to the action of many of our 
churches on the same subject. 
Thus far the evils considered are comparatively 
trivial and can bring but small, and chiefly indirect, 
reproach upon the cemetery. But there is an evil 
that is colossal in its proportions and especially 
fraught with danger to our present system of sepul- 
ture in that no one has seemed to recognize its 
extreme viciousness. That danger is the Monu- 
ment-man. 
“Ridicule is more deadly than argument,” and 
the monumental work that is being done in our ceme- 
*Copynghted, 1894, by the Memorial Art l>eague. 
