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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
This elaborate arrangement for getting rid of 
the dead, profoundly shocks the stranger, who is 
used to other usage. It is useless to insist upon 
the advantages resulting to the general' hygiene, 
especially in the homes of the poor, whose lodgings 
contain often only two rooms, and sometimes only 
one. It is true, no questions of sentiment are 
considered, but then no limit is put upon the 
formalities of respect to the dead which each per- 
son or family may choose to pay to their dead. 
Many persons, moreover, to whom the thought 
merely of sending the remains of relatives to a 
mortuary is repugnant, will, perhaps, on reflection, 
be less severe toward a custom which has the ad- 
vantage, by this abrupt removal of the dead, of 
leaving in one’s recollection less persistently the 
face of the dead than that of the living person. 
GARDEN PLANTS— THEIR GEOGRAPHY, XXIX. 
RUBIALES. 
THE SAMBUCUS, GARDENIA AND GALIUM 
ALLIANCE. 
Diervilla has 7 species from China, Japan and 
North America. The Asiatic kinds and their va- 
rieties are popular beautiful shrubs with flowers 
DIERVILLA VERSICOLOR ALBA. 
varying through many shades of rosy red, pink and 
white. There are also good forms with variegated 
foliage. These plants may often be induced to 
flower during late summer if pruned in after flower- 
ing in May — June. 
Cephalanthus “button bush” has six species in 
temperate and tropical America, tropical Asia, and 
South Africa. Our native kind so familiar in moist 
ground makes a good lawn shrub of from 3 to some- 
times 12 feet high. It varies in leaf-form some- 
what. 
Stephegyjic in about 10 species are tropical trees 
and shrubs. S. parvifolia is widely distributed in 
the drier parts of India, and is of some use as a 
timber. 
Cinchona , in 36 species, from the Amies of 
South America, are the handsome trees and shrubs 
whose barks yield quinine; I fear of no commercial 
use in any of our climates — which are either too 
low or too dry, too hot or too cold— Cuba or the 
Philippines perhaps excepted? 
Bouvardia has 17 species, all from the warm 
central parts of America. B. triphylla and varieties 
and B. ovata are found along the Mexican border 
in U. S. territory. 
Manettias , with 30 species from sub-tropical and 
tropical parts of America and Australia, are in 
South California and Southern gardens in two or 
three species such as bicolor and cordifolia. 
Exostemma is a tropical genus, but E. Caribieum 
has reached the S. Florida Islands. It is a fragrant 
white or pinkish flowered shrub. 
Lucnlia has 2 species from the Himalaya and 
Khasya mountains. L. gratissima is one of the 
very finest fragrant winter flowering sub-tropical 
trees or shrubs that can be conceived. It ought to 
do well in the Southern Citrus belt, choosing 
localities where the frost would not destroy the 
flowers. 
Pinkneya pubens is the most northerly tree 
of the Cinchonaceous tribes. It is found along 
streams and marshy places in South Carolina 
and Georgia, &c. It is not of any especial value 
ornamentally, although it seems to have been kept 
in collections as lar north as Baltimore in the early 
years of the 19th Century. 
Rondeletia, including Rogiera, has 60 species, 
which are mostly shrubs and natives of tropical 
America; one or two are in South California 
gardens. 
Pentas, in 13 species, are from tropical and 
sub-tropical Africa and Madagascar. 
Houstonia, “bluets” of the Northern States, 
have some 20 species extending to the warm parts 
of America. Some 13 species and several varieties 
are natives, mostly of the South and Southwestern 
States. Some forms extend far north, some are 
prostrate annuals, and some perennials six inches 
to one foot high, and disposed to be woody at the 
base. The flowers are in various shades of purple 
through light blue to white. The genus com- 
memorates Dr. William Houston, who died in 
Jamaica in 1733 while collecting for the first Botanic 
Garden in North America, founded by Governor 
