PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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latest and most approved principles now governing 
the plan of a modern cemetery. 
In this instance the tract has a variation in level 
of some 65 feet, ranging from the entrance to the 
highest point which lies at the rear of the plot, and 
the design of the road plan is arranged on this con- 
dition, and they are kept as far as posssible on the 
lower level. They are designed to be 20 feet in 
width and to be of easy grades, and furthermore 
are so laid out as to have all lots accessible. 
The disposition of the lots in the sections has 
been to plat all the larger lots on their margins. 
The general arrangement shows an attractive de- 
sign, the curves are unquestionably graceful; the 
long reaches easily merge into the sharper curves, 
again to take on a gentle sweep to the next turn. 
Every part of the grounds is also well provided with 
road facilities, and, moreover, there is ample pro- 
vision left in the road plan for ornamental planting, 
to secure the landscape effects so desirable for a 
cemetery looking to permanence. 
Throughout the illustration will be seen irregu- 
lar markings which are intended to indicate sug- 
gestive locations for planting deciduous trees and 
groups of shrubs. The boundaries should be 
planted with pines and spruces. 
planting. The country is being educated to the dis- 
sirability of artistic out-of-door landscape work, 
and the fact that “perpetual care” of our cemeter- 
ies is one of the doctrines of cemetery management 
most earnestly and urgently advocated, makes it the 
more obligatory upon all promoters of such proper- 
ties to see to it that nothing is omitted to secure 
proper and careful attention to this feature of prac- 
tice. If properly considered at the start half of the 
battle is won and the result will be felt not only in 
the business affairs of the cemetery but more par- 
ticularly in the general interest which will make the 
enterprise successful in all particulars. 
There is no excuse to-day for untidy, disorderly 
burial grounds. So much study has been given to 
the subject, and so much knowledge gained, that 
only to an absolute disregard of a community’s in- 
terests can such conditions be charged. 
The design given herewith is by Mr. O. C. 
Simonds, of Chicago. 
Formal gardening does not appear to be so 
prominent a feature of park gardening this year as 
in former years, at least it is not receiving so much 
attention. It has unquestionably been carried to 
extremes and a reaction is now apparent. 
