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a moderate number of graves and also 
to open up a few sections of lots, leaving 
the balance of the cemetery to be sub- 
divided when the time arrives and on the 
basis of the experience gained in previous 
sales. It would be a very foolish proposi- 
tion to subdivide the whole cemetery into 
lots, as local conditions so largely govern 
the sizes needed, and the proportion be- 
tween single graves and lots. Experience 
only will be a definite guide. 
The writer does not exactly understand 
the inquiry about park space. If reference 
is had to what is usually called a planting 
space, that is, the free ground bordering 
the drive and in front of the lots, it can 
be said that the maximum of such space 
is about 4 feet in width and the minimum 
nothing at all. In some cemeteries it is 
possible to run the lots clear to the drive- 
way, restricting interments, however, to 
some distance from the front of the lot. 
Our practice is a planting space of two 
feet. This makes a protection for the lots, 
and also gives us a space in which water 
pipes and sewers can be laid, instead of 
under the center of the driveway. 
The question of the size of lots was 
covered very fully by the writer in a paper 
read before the American Association of 
Cemetery Superintendents, and printed in 
your columns some time ago. This paper 
is entirely too long to repeat at this time, 
and it would be well to refer your corre- 
spondent to it as published in one of your 
back numbers. W. N. Rudd, 
President, Mt. Greenwood Cemetery. 
Chicago, 111. 
[The article referred to by Mr. Rudd, 
was a paper read before the New York 
Convention of the Association of American 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Cemetery Superintendents and published in 
Park and Cemetery in October, 1909. It 
was entitled: “The Subdivision of a Cem- 
etery into Sections, Lots and Single Grave 
Sections,” and is the most exhaustive and 
authoritative discussion of this subject in 
print. — Editor.] 
Replying to your correspondent’s ques- 
tion regarding the percentage of lots to 
single graves on a new cemetery of about 
50 acres and the percentage reserved for 
park spaces I shall say that it is an ever 
recurring question that allows of no gen- 
eral solution. For one thing it depends 
on the class of people inhabiting the dis- 
trict, whether generally well to do or other- 
wise, also on conditions governing neigh- 
boring cemeteries, whether the new ceme- 
tery is decidedly above them in “class,” 
even with them or below. In the first case 
it will get its full share and more of lot 
owners, in the last case single graves will 
probably preponderate. Whatever estimate 
is made beforehand, if ever so well con- 
sidered, will turn out wrong, — that is the 
only sure thing, but then there is this rem- 
edy : Select the two sections of the ceme- 
tery that are the most desirable for lots 
and single graves respectively and plot 
say one half of each, leaving a neutral 
zone between them. It will take some 
years before a 50 acre cemetery is half 
occupied, and long before that time it will 
be apparent whether a larger proportion 
of lots or of single graves will be needed, 
and accordingly the neutral zone can be 
encroached upon from the lot side or the 
other. 
The amount of land reserved per- 
manently for park purposes does not gen- 
erally require a definite decision at the 
outset. Treat the question generously, for, 
as mentioned above, there will be plenty of J 
area unoccupied for a number of years, ' 
and this can be used for planting, etc. Try | 
not to sell the plotted lots in too solid | 
areas, but leave unsold stretches between i 
them for planting. Then by the time these 
stretches are needed for burial purposes, 
other planting on the first sold lots will 
have grown up to be prominent enough to | 
maintain the parklike appearance. There j. 
are generally certain areas that lend them- ’ 
selves distinctly to special treatment for 
park purposes and ought to be devoted to 
this exclusively, in that case it is well to 
use them and maintain them as park as 
far as possible, but for the main part of 
the cemetery it is the most economical and . 
satisfactory way to call it nearly all park 
from the beginning and let the sale of lots 
take its course, depending on the first sold 
sections to replace the park land that is 
sacrificed each year. It is to the lot own- 
ers’ interest to cooperate in this rather 
than to make their lots look like a marble 
cutter’s exhibition. 
Regarding sizes of lots, they also depend 
to some extent on the class of population 
and on custom in the locality. In some j 
cases 20 ft. x 20 ft. is the standard size, ji 
varying down to 14x14. It does not mat- 1 
ter much, for the lots can very well be de- 
signed with the possibility in view of cut- | 
ting them up in halves or less, or of dis- I 
posing of several lots together to form one 1 
large burial place. There are often cases , 1 
where people will acquire extensive ; 
grounds and treat them carefully with J 
planting, etc., as a little country place and, j 
of course, it is impossible to forsee to what j 
extent such a policy will be adopted. 
Otto Sonne, 
New York City. Landscape Architect. 
* IS 
LAGOON 
the city of Enid about ten acres of broken j , 
land lying within six blocks of the heart 
of the business district. The park board j 
secured $10,000 to be used on improve- i 
ments. Realizing the hidden beauties in 
this tract of ground the transformation i, 
was speedily brought about and today 
Spring Park is considered one of the most 
beautiful parks in the state. The five min- 9 
eral springs which gush from the base of a 
bluff which runs through the grounds have 
been cemented in, making them sanitary 
and their flow is carried through under 
the walk, where they empty on an apron 
and flow into the lagoon. This arrange- j 
rnent provides convenience and cleanli- 
ness to the public. Hundreds visit this 
park each day and drink the health giving 
virtues of the different mineral springs, 
and enjoy the pleasures of boating on the 
lagoon, while the children revel in the cool 
waters of the wading pool. Symmetrical 
walks, vine covered pergolas, beautiful 
flower beds, shrubbery in abundance, to- 
MINERAL SPRINGS IN CITY PARK 
Enid, Oklahoma, has recently finished the series of mineral springs that have been 
development of a park containing a water utilized in a lagoon. 
feature that is probably unique, namely, a A few years ago the Government gave 
MINERAL SPRINGS LAGOON COMPLETED; SPRING PARK, ENID, OKLA. 
