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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
HARLEIGH CEMETERY, CAMDEN, N. T. 
The work of improvement of our large cemeter- 
ies is a matter requiring constant attention and a 
continual outlay, but it is nevertheless a work of 
constantly increasing interest. No matter to what 
extent, under modern ideas, a cemetery may have 
been developed, there is always work to be done in 
putting on the finishing touches to the completed 
portions, finishing the sections temporarily im- 
proved for burial purposes, or constructing memor- 
ial and permanent buildings which conditions have 
determined are necesssary for the appearance or 
well being of the property. 
The transformation scenes constantly being set 
$2,500 has been expended here. The addition of 
the lake, while removing a sore spot in the general 
effect, has added the air of tranquility and repose 
which the presence of a placid sheet of water im- 
parts. When the bareness wears off, and the shrubs 
and trees make their presence felt in the picture 
another charm will be added to the scenery. 
One of the latest additions to Harleigh is the 
Sumner Vault, constructed in a most substantial 
manner, and located in a side hill. Every attention 
has been paid in its design and erection to perma- 
nence, so as to reduce to a miniman the liability of 
future repairs. A figure to surmount the entrance 
is now being cut in Italy. The cost of the struct- 
RIDGE LAWN TERRACE AND 
in our larger cemeteries makes their progressive de- 
velopment of increasing interest, and gives to illus- 
trations of such work a broader instructive value. 
Harleigh cemetery, Camden, N. J., one of the 
representative cemeteries of modern practice in the 
east, has carried out during the last year or two a 
large amount of such work, and the illustrations 
given herewith are taken in the locality of the im- 
provements. 
The views of “Ridge Lawn Terrace and Swan 
Lake” and “Approach to Summit Lawn” show the 
main changes in the landscape. 
The lake originally was what is commonly called 
a “frog hollow,” and the operations have really re- 
constructed the surface of the area improved; some 
SWAN LAKE. — NEW WORK. 
ure will when completed amount to about $10,000. 
The varied contour of surface comprised within 
the cemetery boundaries have made it possible to se- 
cure beautiful effects. Terrace and lawn, wood- 
land and lakelet, all combine to make it a delight- 
fully restful spot, alike full of suggestion and in- 
spiration either to the mourner or disinterested vis- 
itor. That much discussed poet Walt Whitman 
chose it for his last resting place, and his massive 
tomb, set amid the rustling oak trees, forms a shrine 
which attracts many. 
There are many handsome memorials scattered 
over its lawns, and shaded amid its shrubbery and 
trees, but after all the real beauty of this, as of all 
cemeteries, wherein the landscape gardener has had 
