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just inside the gateway, directly back of 
the pergola. 
The road system, paved with crushed 
Tennessee marble, leads to the various 
sections and was planned to occupy the 
low ground with the lot sections rising on 
cither side. 
The burial sections are arranged with 
open lawns and groups of shrubs, trees, 
and evergreens, so as to form backgrounds 
for monumental work and also to sepa- 
rate the monuments into groups, with the 
proper setting for each group. With head 
markers nearly level with the lawn and 
grave mounds not more than two inches 
high, the burial sections here are ideal. 
Words or photographs fall short of con- 
veying to our readers the fragrance of the 
Southern flora, and color photography has 
not yet been perfected enough to give one 
an idea of the formal garden in Greenwood 
Cemetery, where the rare things from his- 
toric homes of American citizens shall live 
on and keep alive the memory of men of 
worth and recall homes where American 
history was made. The formal garden is 
a feature that attracts the visitor, soothes 
the sorrowing and adds beauty to the 
grounds. 
The sun dial and other features add to 
the attraction at Greenwood. The monu- 
mental work is of a high grade and the 
rare things of the floral world are grow- 
ing there, so Greenwood is becoming to 
the South what Spring Grove of Cincin- 
nati, Graceland of Chicago, and Mount Au- 
burn of Cambridge have been in days past, 
the forerunner of better and more beauti- 
ful cemeteries throughout the South. 
The women of the Flower Association 
of Greenwood Cemetery have undertaken 
to raise money for the new memorial 
chapel to be built in the cemetery grounds. 
The plan for building a memorial chapel 
by gifts was suggested by a friend who 
has given a substantial sum as a nucleus 
to the fund. It has been decided that a 
memorial book be kept, wherein names of 
the giver and that of the one in whose 
memory given be recorded. 
GETTING THE MOST OUT OF THE SUBURBAN LOT 
PLAN NO. 1. 
Compactness strikes the keynote for the 
best arrangement of the small suburban 
lot in order that the commuter may get 
the most fun out of it. 
To one accustomed to the studying out 
of these little problems of landscape ar- 
chitecture it is amazing to find how inter- 
esting they become when approached from 
the point of view of the designer rather 
than that of the gardener ; for important 
as the careful and attractive planting of 
the lot with hardy trees, shrubs and flow- 
ers may be, it is to be remembered that 
these should not be considered the all-in- 
all of “laying out” the home grounds, but 
rather as the final decoration of the de- 
sign. In other words, the problem of 
planting is quite similar to that of interior 
decoration, and no matter how artistically 
the grounds are planted, nothing makes up 
for the fundamental defects of incon- 
venient, unsuitable planning or design. In 
fact, it may be said that the smaller the 
domain the more important it is to place 
due stress upon intelligent planning, for 
on the broad estate defects of design may 
often be largely overcome, or at least min- 
imized or hidden, by the clever arrange- 
ment of planting; but on the typical sub- 
urban lot defective planning — being always 
under the eye — is a constant source of in- 
convenience and annoyance. 
As illustrations of what may be termed 
“compact design,” as applied to these small 
problems, the three plans that accompany 
this article, examples of the work of S. P. 
Negus, the Boston landscape architect, may 
profitably be studied. 
Plan No. 1 shows a small rectangular 
lot containing about 9,000 square feet, 
closely hemmed in by adjoining properties 
and sloping about three feet from front to 
rear. The first thing done was to enclose 
the property with a simple though well de- 
signed white wooden picket fence in order 
to secure a decent degree of privacy and 
make a real home plot of what wordd 
otherwise be merely a house lot. The en- 
framing idea is further accentuated by a 
row of Lombardy poplars just inside the 
fence on three sides. 
The brick entrance walk comes in along 
the living side of the house, while a some- 
what narrower path skirts the service side. 
The former leads to the entrance, on 
through a lattice screen to a seat under a 
tree at the end of a tiny square flower 
garden with a sun-dial in the middle, while 
the latter reaches the rear of the lot via 
the kitchen entrance and servants’ porch. 
The remainder of the rear of the lot is 
given over to a small plot for vegetables, 
while a circular space in brick is provided 
for a removable clothes reel. 
All the walks are of brick. Little shrub 
planting is attempted further than the 
massing of low groups around the house 
walls. In this way a small but unbroken 
lawn space is secured as foreground for 
the house. 
PLAN NO. 2. 
