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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
INTERESTING PLAN FOR CEMETERY ADDITION 
The construction and design of the new 
Annex to Oakwood Cemetery at Waco, 
Texas, presented several interesting prob- 
lems, owing in part to climatic conditions, 
and in part to the extreme flatness of the 
ground. 
First, a complete topographic map of the 
property, comprising fifty-nine acres, was 
very carefully made with contour in- 
tervals of one foot. . From this was first 
drawn the general design of the cemetery 
at a scale of fifty feet to the inch, and 
showing all sections. Then sectional plans 
were prepared at a scale of twenty feet to 
the inch, showing all drives, walks, lots, 
and planting scheme, as well as location of 
all buildings, etc. 
This new annex, adjoining the older 
cemetery as it does, made it necessary^ to 
keep in mind the design and topography of 
the old cemetery in order that at some 
future time the two Burial Parks may be 
combined into an harmonious whole. At 
present, the two cemeteries are conducted 
as separate • institutions. 
The site of the new cemetery being very 
flat, we "were compelled to plan and con- 
struct elevation and depression in order to 
secure some diversity of contour. This 
necessitated the moving of some 8,000 
yards of earth in the two sections at pres- 
ent completed, in addition to the removal 
of the top-soil and such excavations as 
were necessary for building, etc. 
The construction was under the personal 
supervision of the landscape architects 
at a time of year when climatic conditions 
made operations extremely difficult. The 
long Summer drouth baked the earth so 
hard that grading was a slow T and laborious 
matter and before it was completed the 
heavy Fall rains — in one instance more 
THE CHAPEL, OAKWOOD CEMETERY, ANNEX, WACO, TEX. 
