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VoL. IV. CHICAGO, FEB’Y 1895. No. 12. 
CONTENTS. 
FUNERAL REFORM 133 
VALIDITY OF ORDINANCE RELATING TO PLACES OF 
rsURIAL 134 
♦SLEEPY HOLLOW CEMETERY, CONCORD, MASS i34 
CEMETERY GREENHOUSES-WHAT TO BUILD. II 136 
SHRUBS FOR CEMETERIES i38 
♦NEW GREENHOUSES, ALLEGHENY CEMETERY, ALLE- 
GHENY, PA' 138 
CEMETERY NOTES 140 
CORRESPONDENCE 141 
♦THE HOUGHTON MONUMENT 142 
CEMETERY REPORTS 142 
PLANTING AND GOOD PLANTING i43 
EPITAPHS 144 
PUBLISHER'S DEPARTMENT 144 
♦Illustrated. 
W ith this issue the MODERN CEMETERY closes 
its fourth year. It is, as many of our oldest 
subscribers know, the outgrowth of the cem- 
etery department of the Afofininental Nczvs, the 
field appearing to present an opportunity for a 
paper devoted exclusively to Cemetery interests. 
Four years experience has justified the assumption, 
and numerous expressions of opinion from sub- 
scribers have testified to the value of the work which 
has been accomplished. 
The course of this experience has developed 
this, however; that in the quest for information for 
Modern Cemetery purposes the greater part of 
the material obtained, and the sources of that ma- 
terial, have been such as would be equally instruct- 
ive and necessary to that other public feature of our 
civilization, — the Park. The prevailing ideas govern- 
ing the cemetery of to-day so far as the physical con- 
ditions obtain, outside the grave and mortuary mon- 
ument, are practically those necessary for the care 
and improvement of our parks. 
A due consideration of these facts has resulted in 
the decision to amalgamate these interests, and the 
next issue of the Modern Cemetery which com- 
mences Vol. V., will be under the title Park AND 
Cemetery. 
In thanking our subscribers generally for their 
support and interest in the past, we cordially solicit 
and hope for its continuance in the future. 
Funeral Reform. 
The matter of Funeral Reform is assuming 
wide spread proportions, and is establishing itself 
in a very positive way in the centers of population. 
Two years ago a committee of Episcopalian church 
dignitaries was appointed in New York to consider 
the question, and it has recently made a most ex- 
haustive report commending the Burial Reform 
Association, and especially approving certain of the 
recommendations of that body. The following is 
taken from the report: 
Your committee has examined with a great deal of care, the 
constitution of the Burial Reform association. They are con- 
vinced that the more closely the recommendations of said as- 
sociation are adhered to, and the more closely and intelligently 
the archdeaconry co-operates with said association in the dis- 
semination of its principles, the larger and more benificial will 
be the results. The recommendations of the Burial Reform 
Association are as follows; 
“1. The exercise of economy and simplicity in everything 
appertaining to the funeral. 
“2. The use of plain hearses. 
“3. The disuse of crape, scarfs, feathers, velvet trappings and 
the like. 
“4. The avoiding of all unchristian and heathen emblems 
and the use of any floral decorations beyond a few cut flowers. 
“5. The discouraging of all eating and drinking in connect- 
ion with funerals. 
“6. The discouraging of any but immediate members of the 
family from accompanying the body to the grave; but nothing 
in these rules and methods shall be considered as discouraging 
the attendance of persons at the grave in connection with the 
holding of religious services. 
“7. The dispelling of the idea that all club money or society 
money must be spent on the funeral. 
“8. The use of such materials for the coffin as rapidly decay 
after burial, and the disuse of the box in which it is commonly 
inclosed. 
“9. The early interment of the body in soil sufficient and 
suitable for its resolution to its ultimate elements. 
“10 The substitution of burial plots for family vaults. 
“i I. The encouragement, on sanitary grounds, of the remov- 
al, in crowded districts, of the body to a mortuary, instead of re- 
taining it in rooms occupied by the living. 
“12. The impressing upon the officers of public charity and 
correction the claims of the poorest to proper and reverent burial. 
The report adds the following further recommen- 
dations for New York evolved form the committees 
investigation: 
“i. The substitution of a simple garb of muslin or linen for 
dressing the dead, in place of clothing that might be of use to the 
living. 
