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the highest and most diversified beauty from the 
abundant material which nature presents for his 
use or selection. 
Woodland or Forest Hill or Greenwood are ap- 
propriate names for such a place, where any con- 
siderable area is maintained in forest growth and 
such maintenance is sound business management 
aside from its aesthetic charm, since that portion of 
the ground will be the most economically cared for 
of the whole cemetery area. 
A most restful feature of a cemetery and the most 
thoroughly enjoyed by those who appreciate the 
simple charm of nature’s own landscapes is the 
woodland road or path. The landscape lawn plan 
is based upon simple, natural compositions of land- 
scape elements for its aesthetic beauty, with such 
arrangement and regulation of lawn surface and 
planting, and of grave finish and monumental work 
as will facilitate the neatest possible care of the 
entire grounds at an economical rate of expense. 
To meet these conditions we must prohibit all 
fences and hedges, all copings, chains and railings, 
all enclosures or boundary markings of any sort 
around the individual lots. Each cemetery section 
must be treated as a continuous lawn under a gen- 
eral plan, and we must therefore permit no plant- 
ing of trees or shrubbery excepting by the cemetery 
corporation. 
The grave surface should be a part of the lawn, 
and where the attitude of the proprietors prevents 
such treatment for the present, there should be 
some regulation of the care of graves which will 
keep the entire list of graves in neat, presentable 
condition at all seasons. 
With the graves a part of the lawn, the single 
graves in the public ground should be as neatly kept 
as those upon the family lots of the most wealthy 
proprietors, and under the perpetual care system 
which should everywhere prevail a family should 
feel assured that the last resting place of loved ones 
will be cared for with the same neatness, whether 
the friends are visiting the cemetery each week or 
are living a thousand miles distant from the graves. 
Modern Interment Methods in California 
Editor Park and Cemetery: — Not to be outdone 
by their brethren in the East, Mount Olivet Ceme- 
tery, of San Francisco, sends the accompanying 
illustration of the methods in use at interments. 
This device is the “Floral Mantle,” and not only 
lowers the casket into the box at bottom of gr.ave. 
but the weight of the casket automatically operates 
a floral screen, which, v/hile the service is being 
conducted, gradually covers the opening with a 
beautiful mantle of flowers, thus shielding from view 
the open grave and ending the ceremony with grace 
and dignity. The earth mound is entirely covered 
with foliage and cut flowers. 
Mount Olivet, located within the sound of the 
waves of the Pacific Ocean and beautified with trees 
of perpetual green and a profusion of flowers which 
floral mantle and earth covering. 
are so easily cultivated, furnishes a suitable setting 
to this ceremony. 
Like most natural functions, burial is painful to 
people of fine sensibilities. To the end that these 
moments of grief may be soothed and the feeling 
of separation made less poignant, the modern ceme- 
tery has been planned. Here amidst green lawns 
and sheltering trees 
“Where everlasting Spring abides 
And never dying flowers” 
we bring our loved ones to their final home. 
There is nothing so consoling to the mind of the 
bereaved as the contemplation of natural objects 
when properly presented. The up-to-date cemetery 
must study every plan to supplement the efforts of 
the undertaker, who after many hours of care and 
THE FLORAL MANTLE AFTER LOWERING CASKET. 
