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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
NEW METHOD of PLANTING IVY and MYRTLE GRAVES 
Hour Ivy and Myrtle Are Transplanted from Nursery io Grave in 
Boxes, by Forrest McCoy, Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, 0. 
Transplanting ivy and myrtle graves in planting each plant separately and have it 
boxes from the nursery to the grave was show a healthy growth. In the new 
adopted by us for two reasons : method, the ivy or myrtle is kept in con- 
METHOD OF TRANSPLANTING IVY AND MYRTLE AT LAKE VIEW. 
First : In the hotter months of the- year 
it is next to impossible to plant a grave of 
ivy and myrtle by the old method of trans- 
One of the most beautiful fountain 
memorials in the country, and one of 
the most attractive public memorials in 
Washington, is the memorial fountain 
lately placed near the White House 
grounds in memory of Major Archibald 
W. Butt, United States Army, and Fran- 
cis D. Millet, artist, heroes of the Titanic 
disaster. 
Its simple, graceful lines, chaste pro- 
portions and delicately sculptured reliefs 
make it a rarely appropriate tribute to 
two of those most honored in the rec- 
ords of the Titanic wreck. It is doubly 
a tribute in that both the sculptor, Dan- 
iel Chester French, and the architect, 
Thomas Hastings, of Carrere & Hast- 
ings, gave their work free of cost to the 
memorial. 
The memorial is a severely simple ar- 
chitectural composition with two deli- 
cate low reliefs symbolizing the lives of 
the two men commemorated. 
One of the reliefs represents “Paint- 
ing,” and the other a knight in armor, 
stant trim and when transplanted it has the 
appearance of having been growing on the 
grave for a number of months. 
as suggesting Major Butt’s profession of 
arms. They are each four feet in height, 
from which the approximate dimensions 
of the fountain may be judged. The ma- 
terial of the fountain is Knoxville mar- 
ble. The fountain is placed just outside 
the White House grounds, in the park 
between the White House grounds and 
the Washington monument, which may 
be discerned, fainly outlined in the 
background of our illustration. It is 
nearly surrounded by shrubbery. Pic- 
cirilli Brothers executed the stonework. 
The monument to de Musset, executed 
by Moncel, takes the form of a monu- 
mental fountain in the garden of the 
Grand Palais in Paris, a few paces to 
the right of the south entrance to this 
building. 
The monumental group, done in mar- 
ble, represents the poet de Musset sur- 
rounded by figures in both high and low 
relief of the various important characters 
in his works. 
Moncel has given in rather realistic 
These boxes are made of white oak, the 
standard size measuring six feet four 
inches long, two feet one inch wide and 
four inches deep. The boxes may vary in 
size according to grave. You will see by 
the accompanying photograph that the bot- 
tom of the box is of slats. These are two 
inches wide, one inch thick and two inches 
apart. We use no preservative on the 
boxes. 
Before planting the vines, the boxes are 
buried two inches below the surface of the 
ground in the nursery, from that time on 
the plants are given the usual care to keep 
them in good shape. 
When an order comes from the office 
for an ivy or myrtle grave the planted 
box is lifted from the ground, placed in 
the proper cart to be carried to the grave, 
which has been prepared in the following 
manner : The outside measurements of 
the box having been noted, a trench is dug 
over the grave, allowing just room enough 
for the box to slip in and deep enough 
to have the box about one and a half to 
two inches below the surface of the lawn. 
The edge of the box is then covered with 
sod and the grave is ready for inspection. 
The photograph herewith shows the box 
before planting and one that has just been 
lifted from the nursery bed preparatory to 
removal to a grave. 
L FOUNTAINS 
style a clever arrangement to these fig- 
ures. Those near the foreground are 
executed in the round, while those in 
the middle distance and on the horizon, 
as it were, are in low relief and practical- 
ly melt and incorporate themselves in the 
flat marble. 
At the left center of the arrangement, 
in the foreground, sits de Musset, lost in 
reverie, a splendid figure, both as to 
pose, spirit and execution. 
Surrounding this monumental fountain 
are some antique columns forming a 
note, so the group is not crowded direct- 
ly against a hard background of tree 
trunks and shrubs, but is first relieved by 
the semi-severeness of these architectural 
forms. 
In the foreground is a pool supplied 
by a stream that flows from the rugged 
base of the monument. In the summer 
this pool is filled with white lilies, which 
repeat the softness of the white marble 
in the water. 
TWO FINE PARK MEMORIA 
