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PARK AND 
CEMETERY. 
as president. Four presidents of Woodmere, John J 
Bagley, Isaac M. Swain, Rufus W. Gillett and James A. 
Brown, now rest under the shade of its elms. 
The landscape gardening of Woodmere Cemetery has 
received the most thoughtful attention from the first. 
The natural curves of the land have been considered, 
though no less attractive. In some sections umbrella 
elms tower protectingly above the sombre shadows cast 
by the pines at their feet. Nature has so located the 
trees that they lend themselves to the general scheme 
of scenic effect, and has lost no opportunity of using 
tree trunks for the display of luxuriant trailing foliage. 
LEAFY NATURAL ARBOR OVER A ROADWAY. 
whether through woods or beside placid waters. Most 
of the natural growth of the woods has been undisturbed, 
except for the making of roadways. 
The chapel nestles amid the foliage of oaks and maples, 
flanked by the luxuriant growth of shrubbery. Roads 
wind here and there, disclosing at every turn natural 
beauties quite unlooked for. There are stretches of open 
lands where the growth is less dense than elsewhere, 
Here and there a Lombardy Poplar, contrasting pic- 
turesquely with the surrounding foliage, stands like a 
sentinel, and many trees which stood as giants in the days 
gone by, still rear their heads majestically above their neigh- 
bors. 
The clearing away has disclosed trees of great beauty, 
formerly lost sight of and every turn of the road dis- 
closes some additional natural beauty or profusion and 
