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PARK AND CEMETERY . 
PROMOTING WIDER USE OF GRAVE DECORATIONS 
It is an important part of the cem- 
etery’s business affairs that all of the 
facilities and services it is obliged to 
provide for the convenience of the 
lot owners be as freely used as pos- 
sible in order that these subsidiary 
West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Phila- 
delphia, has recently issued a twelve 
page booklet devoted solely to show- 
ing the different styles of grave dec- 
orations and giving prices and other 
details of the arrangements. Full 
partment suggests and advises with lot 
owners as to what flowers to use, the 
price of course, varying with the kind 
selected. 
The palm and fern decoration pro- 
vides an evergreen lining for the 
GRAVE WITH NO DECORATION. 
PLAIN GRAVE DECORATION OF EVERGREENS. 
EVERGREEN DECORATION WITH FLOWERS. 
duties may be made self-supporting 
or even to show a substantial rev- 
enue. 
Grave Decorations would undoubt- 
edly be more freely used if the lot 
owners and others interested were 
more fully aware of their value in 
adding beauty to the burial service. 
There is no more effective method of 
telling them of this service and show-- 
ing them what it will do for a more 
beautiful burial service than by pic- 
tures of graves with and without dec- 
orations. 
page pictures of the different styles 
of decorations are shown, as illus- 
trated here, and on the opposite page 
information and prices referring to 
the illustration are set forth. 
The plain decoration includes the 
lining of the grave and the covering 
of the dirt with evergreens. The 
charge for this service is $10 for the 
use of the decorations at each grave. 
In the decoration with flowers, the 
grave is evergreen-lined and studded 
with flowers and the earth is covered 
with evergreen. The greenhouse de- 
grave, and the earth is studded with 
palms and ferns as shown in the il- 
lustration. For the use of this style 
of decoration, a charge of $25 is made 
and orders are accepted subject to 
weather conditions. 
The most elaborate decoration pro- 
vided is the palm and fern arrange- 
ment with the flowers for studding 
both the grave and the earth in ad- 
dition. Prices of this vary, of course, 
with the kind of flowers used. The 
cemetery greenhouses also advertise 
special decorations of any kind, and 
