PARK AND CEMETERY 
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Monuments and tl\e Eawn Plan Cemetery. 
It is most unfortunate that officials of small and 
of medium-sized cemeteries fail to appreciate the prac- 
tical and aesthetic advantages of the lawn plan. It 
is distinctly the exception to find burial places in vil- 
lages, towns or even in small cities, conducted on mod- 
ern lines. This is the greater misfortune because they 
are the very places where this practice is most needed 
for in many, if not in a majority of them, the cemetery 
is the only park. 
In large cemeteries there is strict supervision of 
stone work, as well as of planting and of other details, 
but this is far from true in the average small cemetery, 
because the Superintendent, if there is such an official, 
is neither a member of the Association of Cemetery 
Superintendents, nor does he inform himself regard- 
ing advanced ideals and practices in cemetery mat- 
ters by reading and studying the easily available litera- 
ture on this and kindred subjects. 
1. MONUMENT WITH HIGH AND OBTRUSIVE MARKERS. 
The result of absence of correct information and 
proper education is lamentably noticable in various 
cemetery features, but is, perhaps, especially evident 
in the size, quality, quantity and treatment of memorial 
stones of every character. There seems to be a rivalry 
among survivors as to the dimensions of stones set up 
in memory of those who have passed over, without 
regard to either fitness or beauty. 
Or is the prevailing similarity in ajipearance be- 
tween small cemeteries and stone yards, due to a pre- 
ponderance of the purely commercial spirit among 
dealers in marble and granite? There is reason for 
the feeling which animates those who buy memorials 
of marble which often occupy ground that might bet- 
ter be devoted to planting, park-like in character, but 
the marble dealer who urges the sale of stone work 
inartistic in design or out of proportion to the size 
of the plot where it is to be placed, defeats his own 
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2. AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MARKERS. 
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