THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
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A WATERSIDE TOMB.- GRACETAND CEMETERY. CHICAGO. 
control of material is, in this case, partly due to 
the large use made of native shrubs that were bound 
to thrive from the outset, because they were accli- 
mated and in their accustomed environment. 
By using well chosen native shrubs for the basis 
of various plantations, good, ine.xpensive and quick 
results may be depended on in any given locality, 
if practical knowledge is available for the work of 
transplanting, and taste for the correct grouping. 
And with such a foundation it should not be diffi- 
cult to add less common or even rare hardy shrubs 
year by year, providing always that provision is 
made in the original plan for such additions. But 
Mr. Simonds goes to the wilds not only for tangible 
raw material, but for inspiration. Every happy 
combination of tree, shrub, vine and herbaceous 
plant is an object lesson of which he makes mental 
note. Sometimes he even transports the object les- 
son bodily, and naturalizes it in some sylvan nook 
of Graceland, where it feels so much at home that 
it goes right along making itself beautiful in undis- 
turbed serenity: as witness a small oak tree, its 
crimson foliage partly smothered by the fresh leaves 
of a vigorous Bitter-sweet vine that makes a green 
tent all about its trunk. This was seen in a wood- 
land drive and brought home in triumph. 
Of course one may not expect to often find port- 
able object lessons ready at hand; but suggestions 
abound, and happy the man who can see, appre- 
ciate and grasp them. 
Taste can transform a mud puddle into a lovely 
pool; a stone pile into a picturesque rockery; it can 
see and seize the possibilities in sandy, tree grown 
ridges alternating with damp, swamp like depres- 
sions such as lie both to the north and the south of 
Chicago, and, making the most of each natural ad- 
vantage as well as of each seeming defect, produce 
a fine general effect. Just as the late Dion Bouci- 
cault had the art to make his defective eye an ac- 
tual advantage. 
In fact, taste can take any material at hand and 
evolve from it something else, that, without losing 
the spirit of the original scene, will be more beau- 
tiful. Could planting for cemetery purposes be 
more practical or more pleasing than that shown in 
our illustration, “A peaceful glade.” The group- 
ing of trees and shrubs is admirable. The planting 
beautifies every lot, and fortunately, the graves, 
mostly level with the surrounding lawns, are loca- 
ted by unobtrusive markers. 
The glade is delightful as a picture and idyllic 
as a loitering place. 
But the attractions here are manifold, and there 
is much to be learned from them. One learns, for 
instance, how much better and artistic in most loca- 
tions irregular belts of shrubbery are than formal 
