PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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BRIEF VISITS TO SOUTHERN CEMETERIES 
{Concluded) 
Extracts from the Diary of a Cemetery Exfert: 
Seeing Cemeteries from ICashington to Cuba 
At Daytona 
A very pleasant occurrence hap- 
pened. We staid tvith friends on 
Ridgewood avenue, the most beauti- 
ful natural wooded street I ever saw, 
and in the morning we all strolled 
out to visit some neighbors. As we 
passed a large house out rushed a 
gentleman and up to me in the hearti- 
est manner. It was Fred Diering, our 
ex-president, and the superintendent 
of A'oodlawn Cemetery, Xew York. 
He and iMrs. Diering were sojourning 
at Da3'tona for a fortnight. We were 
delighted to see each other. Rut Fred 
is a sportsman, and he and his partj' 
went a-fishing. Xow, let me tell you 
want happened to us, Fred. We 
dropped into see IMr. Hoene. a 
' wealth}' gentleman who has a mag- 
nificent home and a fine collection of 
plants: not far from where you were 
stat'ing, and we became such fast 
friends that he requested us to retun, 
i our carriage to the stable, for we were 
going for a drive around town, and 
he placed his automobile at our serv- 
ice with orders to go anyw'here and 
everj'where we wanted to. And as the 
■ morning was cool he encased me in a 
big overcoat and my friends and 
daughter in heavj' wraps. Enjo}' it 1 
Wh\-, mj' bo}', it was immense. We 
drove to Xew Smj-rna and 40 miles 
around the country, his chauffeur ex- 
• plaining everything to us. The milk 
: of human kindness is in the South 
all right. 
At Miami. 
: Xo other cemeterj- appealed partic- 
ularl}' to us until we got to Miami. 
Here between iMiami and Lemon Citj', 
by the roadside, is a rather new and 
nicely kept cemetery. On either side 
of it are fine groves of orange and 
; grape fruit trees in full bearing, and 
spreads of pineapples, and a most sac- 
religious thought entered my head — 
■ “What a splendid fruit farm I could 
make out of that cemetery.” 
In Cuba. 
Here too the country graveyard 
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prevails. Colon Cemeter\', Havana, 
however, is the great cemeter}- of the 
countr}', and with this alone I shall 
deal. It is a large and pretentious 
cemeter}' on the outskirts of the cit\', 
and is one of the sights of the city. 
We visited it twice, first in a sight- 
seeing automobile, then we made it 
a special visit. Dr. Felipe A. Cabal- 
lero is the reverend father in charge 
He was exceeding!}- courteous to us 
and gave us permission to go every- 
where we wanted to. Finding some 
trees with which 1 was not familiar. 
1 returned to his office, and together 
we ranged through his reference books, 
but failing to satisfy me he sent for 
the gardener and instructed him to 
give me slips of anything and every- 
thing 1 might wish to take home with 
men for verification or identification. 
In the cemetery is a vast amount 
of stone work, mostly marble, whole 
lots being completely covered with 
stone. Fences and curbings too are 
common, and there is a prevalence of 
big metal flowers, wreaths, and dead 
flowers. There are also some fine 
mausoleums and monuments within 
the grounds. Two funerals took place 
while we were there and were spec- 
tacular, but I am not familiar enough 
with the details to write accurately. 
When the L'. S. General Woods 
was in command in Cuba he cleaned 
Havana and too had something to do 
with cemetery atfair.s. 
The driveways through the ceme- 
tery are shaded with fine trees. Chief 
among these are Ficus ferruginea and 
Ficus nitida, also the horseradish tree 
(Moringa) Australian “pine’’ (Casu- 
arina equisitifolia), poinciana. tropical 
almond (Terminalia), soapberry (Sap- 
indus), one or two kinds of eucalyp- 
tus, and the ubiquitous China tree 
(Melia). The variety of shrubs was 
numerous and included Murraya ex- 
otica — one of the best, aralias and 
panax of several kinds, A. Guilfoylei, 
bei’-’g commonest ; oleanders and hibis- 
biscus in great bloom, the blue plum- 
bago, the yellow allamandas, crotons 
of many hues and dark visioned aca- 
lyphas: IMeyenia erecta, blue and 
white, the fragrant Tabermemontana 
ccronaria, the dwarf Melia floribunda 
always in bloom, and many more. 
Rosebushes were plentiful. Asclepias 
curassavica, orange or scarlet, wild 
and cultivated riveted the eye on 
every hand. Tradescantia reginae was 
a weed. The intense blue Ciitoria 
ternata and its white form took pos- 
session of many a nook and fence, 
masses of bougainvillea painted the 
lots, and the rosy Antigonon leptopes 
ran over arbors, fences, bushes and 
up into the trees. There are some 
fine specimen^ of Pandanus utilis. 
Outdoors it is the handsomest of the 
genus becoming arborecent. P. 
^’eitchii or P. Javanicus become great 
thickets, the same with P. Rapiistii. 
losing character and the evennes' and 
distinctness of their stripes, in fact 
they look messy. The scarlet-tipped 
bird cactus ( Pedilanthus) as bush and 
hedge was in evidence everywhere, 
and ^hnca rosea, mostly white, was 
abundant, run wild and cultivated. 
Blossoming and planted in the lots 
were several common annuals and 
bedding plants, zinneas and African 
marigolds (Tagetes) being most 
frequent. Bouquet work is antiquated, 
harmony in color ignored, and the 
stiffness of our forefathers the rule. 
Home Again — Washington. 
Having promised Brother .Smith 
that we would revisit him on our 
home journey, we did so, but last of 
all. First we took in the Agricultural 
Department, then the Bureau of Plant 
Industry, where my old warm friends. 
Superintendent Burns and Plant 
Propagator George W. Oliver, pre- 
side. The latter has revolutionized 
the practical ways of fertilization and 
hybridization of plants and simplified 
the methods of propagation. Send to 
the Agricultural' Department for a 
bulletin on this subject just gotten up 
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