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PARK AND CEMETERY . 
PI. ANTING TO SET OFF AND SOFTEN BASE DINES OF MONUMENTAI. WORK. 
We have previously commented on the handsome book 
of views issued each year by Woodlawn Cemetery, New 
York City, and drawn some impressive pictorial lessons 
in tlie line art of making a highly developed cemetery 
landscape. 
This year's book, recently issued, is just as beautifully 
executed pictorially and typographically as its predecessors 
and just as fruitful in graphic lessons on the landscape 
treatment of the cemetery grounds. 
The 1010 book contains twenty-two full page pictures 
the size of the two shown here, and one doulile page 
\iew in the center, twice as large, printed in the finest art 
of half-tone illustration on a delicate green paper which 
forms a mat or frame about the picture. 
The two views illustrated here are selected particularly 
to show the successful manner in which planting is used 
to set off monuments and mausoleums. The making of a 
fine picture depends as much on what is concealed as in 
what is shown. Straight lines and obtrusive angles can 
lie softened, and the interest enhanced by concealing parts 
of the view, and leaving something undiscovered to the 
eye. 
SETTING OFF MONUMENT 
Around the bases of monuments, planting is particu- 
larly needed to soften the lines and make the stone work 
l.dend naturally with the landscape and seem a part ot 
the picture. 
The massed planting along the walk shown in one of 
the pictures serves a double purpose by forming a back- 
ground to the stretch of laum in front, and by completely 
hiding the lower portions of the massive rustic cross and 
the circular mausoleum. 
In the other picture note how the open lawn is bordered 
l)y low planting at the right, which merges naturally with 
tlie background of stately mausoleums extending across 
the picture, and broken here and there by trees and shrub- 
bery. 
The book devotes several pages to some brief facts 
<about the cemetery, its management and charges, which 
are interesting as showing how things are done in what 
is one of the most highly developed cemeteries in the 
country. Ttlaborate tombs to many of New York’s mil- 
