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kept but preserving many objectionable characteris- 
tics. The formality of the square sections, the mono- 
tony of outline so subversive of beautiful possibilities, 
the topiary efforts reducing to formal lines the 
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wondrous grace of nature in her tree forms, the 
mounds, the tall markers — cold right angles every- 
where and no curve to create diversion or stim- 
ulate the mind to a love of the beautiful. 
These remarks 
hold good fora great 
number of cemeteries 
in our smaller places, 
and to not a few in 
the larger ones. The 
apparent care is a re- 
deeming' feature and 
intimates that pro- 
gressive ideas are 
formulating. 
Plate 3 is a fami- 
liar scene in many of 
our larger cemeteries; 
it may be added, 
however, that the 
picture shows the 
older portion of the 
grounds, already de- 
veloped before the 
new era fairly set in, 
In particular it dis- 
plays the crowded condition of its monuments, 
almost obliterating the face of nature; its high mark- 
ers, posts and other stonework rendering the care 
of the grass difficult and expensive, and the old 
idea of bordering the sections with coping to mark 
their outlines. 
Plate 4 presents a scene in a modern cemetery 
and who will deny its claim to outrank its prede- 
cessois. Harmony 
and repose are reflect- 
ed from every point. 
Symmetry of nature’s 
teaching proclaims it- 
self, to rest the eye and 
refresh the mind. A 
work of art is spread 
out before one, nature’s 
materials are the pig- 
ments, earth and sky 
the canvas, and the 
hand of man in touch 
with nature herself the 
composer. The mod- 
ern cemetery must be 
as far as circumstances 
permit, a work of land- 
scape art; the examples 
already established 
point such lessons 
while presenting such 
attractiveness, that to work from them as examples 
becomes practically, a business obligation. There 
is no cemetery so small but it can be made a beauty 
spot, none so large but it presents a field for land- 
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scape effort that will reap a reward. The ultimate 
of the cemetery would appear to be in a sense, the 
memorial park, preserved for ever under the pro- 
visions which well regulated enterprises are working 
