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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
RECEIVING VAULT, NEW BEDFORD, MASS. 
Municipal corporations having cemeteries under 
their control, are now generally exercising consid- 
erable activity to effect improvements and provide 
the necessary facilities for conducting such proper- 
ties on the more modern ideas now widely operat- 
ing. 
New Bedford, Mass., last year found it neces- 
sary to increase the area, by purchase, of Oak Grove 
cemetery, and its burial grounds are so rapidly filling 
that further accommodation is more or less impera- 
tive. The Cemetery Board before undertaking im- 
provements, examined the cemetery development 
question very carefully, in relation to modern ceme- 
tery practice, and requested the City Engineer to 
study the subject and submit plans for the work. 
This has been done and the lawn plan is to be 
adapted to all new work. The advantages of this 
both as regards appearance and the facility afforded 
for the better care of the lots always impresses the 
thoughtful mind, and a comparison between a sec- 
tion so treated and one under the old style is gen- 
erally a potent argument. There is another and 
most important advantage in the lawn plan for ceme- 
tery controlled by municipal authorities, — it avoids 
so many paths and the waste of lot surface for that 
purpose. 
The illustration herewith shows a new Receiv- 
ing Vault recently completed in the Rural ceme- 
tery of the old town. As will be observed, it is 
constructed of rubble with dressed trimmings and is 
of very attractive appearance. It is a satisfaction 
to note the increasing interest taken by so many 
cities in their municipal cemeteries, and the appar- 
ent appreciation of the landscape features in con- 
nection with additions and improvements. 
THE PETERHOF PALACE, RUSSIA. 
The Peterhof Palace, where the president of the 
French republic w'as recently the guest of the Czar, 
was built in 1720 for Peter the Great by the French 
architect, Leblond. On this beautiful site, where he 
had already built a summer residence, the Chateau 
Montplaisir, Peter the Great dreamed of a Versailles 
ON THE LAKE. 
which should eclipse that of Louis XIV. The Pe- 
terhof, enlarged and beautified by the Phnpresses 
Catherine I., Anne, Elizabeth and Catherine II. 
and by Czars Paul I., Alexander I. and Nicolas I., 
does not surpass, but recalls Versailles. 
dhe main building of the Peterhof and the pa- 
villion are in red and white — bright red and bril- 
liant white — like many other imperial dwellings in 
Russia. The green roof is of iron and surmounted 
by gilded domes. Gold is used with lavish profu- 
sion, and would have a worse effect were it not that 
its glitter is tempered by the abundance of living 
■water and verdure. 
In front of the palace, from the shore of the bay 
FOUNTAIN BETWEEN CASCADES. 
of Cronstadt, there extends a vast terrace, from 
which two cascades pour their waters into the pool 
of Samson, over six great levels, the steps of giants, 
bordered with statues and vases, blinding with 
their wealth of gilding. Under the terrace, be- 
