THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
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Cemetery Reports. 
The annual report of the Mount Royal Ceme- 
tery, Montreal, Canada, for the year ending Nov. 
30th, 1894, shows that considerable improvement 
was done during the year, and that the perpetual 
care system received much encouragement from 
proprietors of lots under old tenure deeds. The 
general receipts for the year, with balance from 
1893, were $31,622.86, and disbursements $28,- 
718.92. Number of interments 1376. The invest- 
ed funds of the cemetery amount to $35,206.09. 
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The annual meeting of the Riverside Cemetery 
Association, Cleveland, Ohio, has been held and 
the report published. A bonded indebtedness of 
$70,000 has been discharged, and the Association 
has now also cash and book account assetts of over 
$20,000. The total receipts for the year ending 
Nov. 30th, 1894 of $23,138.64 include $17,858.74 
for lot accounts and $2,712.40 for interments and 
receiving tomb fees. The total disbursements, in- 
cluding $41,000 for redemption of balance of 
outstanding bonds amounted to $51,463.36. The 
old officers were re-elected and in his report the 
president strongly urged the formation of a fund 
looking to the perpetual care of the cemetery. 
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The annual report of the Oakland Cemetery 
Association, St. Paul, Minn., gives receipts from 
all sources $21,757.28 and total expenditures $16- 
720. The increase in the perpetual care fund for 
the year ending October 31st, 1894, was $5,133-92 
and the aggregate of these funds $87,116.84. The 
amount received by sale of lots for the year was 
$8,473.00 and for single graves $1,343.00. Inter- 
ment and tomb fees amounted to $2,686.00. Green- 
house sales were $3,243.77. The expenditure for 
labor for the year was $8,384.46. The work of im- 
provement was restricted by reason of the compara- 
tively small sales of lots and an unusually expen- 
sive season. 
Reco 7 tveyance of Lots iii Trust. — An important 
subject that should be carefully considered by every 
lot owner, is that of securing the undisturbed in- 
terment of himself and family by rendering it im- 
possible for his heirs at law, induced by poverty or 
cupidity, to remove their bodies and dispose of the 
lot, which has been done in several instances. This 
can be accomplished by reconveying the same to the 
Corporation, to be held by it in perpetual trust for 
the permanent interment of himself and such others 
as may be designated by him. This reconveyance 
does not deprive the owner of any privileges he en- 
joys as lot owner; does not prevent him from mak- 
ing any improyements on his lot, erecting monu- 
ments or headstones, or enjoying a sense of owner- 
ship. In fact, the ownership is secured to him- 
self and those dear to him, beyond all danger of 
alienation or desecration forever. — Uniondalc Cem- 
etery, Allegheny , Pa. 
Trees and Shrubs. — The Lawn. 
Go around among your trees and shrubs and 
mark all that you wish to cut down or root out, 
says Mr. Falconer, in Gardening. You can do this 
rooting out better now than later on, because so far 
there is very little frost in the ground, hence you 
can do the work more expeditiously than you can 
in mid-winter, don’t leave anything of this sort till 
the spring for then between planting, grading, and 
fixing up things generally, we are apt to be very 
busy. Use a little discretion in thinning out, how- 
ever. In the case of evergreen trees that you wish 
to get rid of, but which serves a good shelter for 
other plants in winter, if practical, leave them stand 
till the winter is over and get the good of their shel- 
ter. At Uosoris, as we use a good many evergreen 
branches for covering somewhat tender or little 
plants in winter, and also for temporary windbreaks, 
we strain a point in thinning the belts of pines, 
spruces and firs. Instead of clearing away every 
unnecessary tree in one season, we keep thinning 
out these supernumeraries, a few every fall, to use 
them for protecting purposes. In this way, those 
that are left are always pretty specimens. 
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From the same periodical we take the following 
on the Lawn: Having raked off the roughest of 
the tree leaves, we are now prepared to apply a lit- 
tle top dressing. This is a light coating of loose 
manure, either fresh horse manure from the city 
stables, or rotted, well broken up farm yard 
manure preserved on the place. This dressing 
may be put on any time after the middle of 
November, but as there is so much lawn to go 
over here, we wait till a frosty spell of weather, 
when we can drive the loaded wagons on the grass, 
without cutting the turf. This saves labor and we 
do better and cleaner work. But where there is 
only a small lawn, or it isn’t necessary to drive the 
wagons on the grass, don’t wait for a frosty time, 
but spread the top dressing at once. It is nice to 
get it on before snow comes. Put it on about half 
or third as heavy as you would on to cultivated gar- 
den lands. 
A young man, struck down at the age of 19, 
left this warning to his companions: 
In he.T.lth and strength put not thy trust, 
'The strongest man is made of dust; 
Repent in haste, make no delay 
For I in youth was called away. 
