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stable boss, 2 gardeners, one clerk, one in charge of 
all buildings, 8 teamsters, and 6 grave diggers. 
The rest of the force is employed in the improve- 
ment and cleaning of the grounds. 
The receipts of the cemetery from all sources 
is about $90,000 per year. There is a surplus of 
$290,000. The affairs of the cemetery are managed 
by a board of nine directors, men of the highest 
standing and character, who give their services 
without any compensation whatever. They are 
constantly mindful of their trust, and guard the in- 
terests of the lot owners with fidelity and good 
judgment. The annual meeting of the lot owners 
is held the first Monday in October to receive the 
reports of the Secretary and Superintendent and 
elect directors, three of whose term expires each 
year. The old members are always re-elected. 
Cincinnati, O. W 7 n. Sahvay. 
Yuccas and Grasses. 
Yuccas are prominent among those hardy plants 
that have enough character to fill a distinct place in 
landscape work. In fact they serve well where 
nothing else will serve. One thinks of no other 
genus with varieties that are at once reliably hardy, 
and tropical in effect. It is an unusual combina- 
tion. Some of the finer ornamental grasses do, in 
a sense, come under this description, but they are 
quite different in style and have a place of their own 
without infringing the rights of the Yuccas. 
Indeed the similarities and dissimilarities of the 
hardy representatives of these two genera fit them 
not only for use in similar situations, as in isolated 
clumps, forming the outposts as it were, of shrub- 
bery borders, or singly in certain locations; but for 
being used together. They would be excellent in 
combination for plantings of a semi-formal charac- 
ter, such as are especially appropriate in connection 
with architecture or architectural effects. A good 
example of their use in this way was shown at the 
World’s Fair in the plantings on the lower terrace 
PART OF TERRACE PL.ANl’ING, WORLD’S FAIR GROUNDS. 
YUCCA AUGUSTIFOLIA AT IVTISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN, 
ST. LOUIS. 
facing the canal, between the Manufactures and 
Electricity Buildings, and which were practically 
repeated on each side of the broad flights of steps 
leading from the lower terrace, at the north and 
south of the grand basin, to the entrances of the 
Manufactures and Agricultural Buildings. These 
plantings were not formed of the plants in question, 
but the general effect produced by those that were 
used could be almost exactly reproduced by the 
others. 
In such positions Yuccas and hardy grasses like 
the Eulalias, Erianthus Ravenna and Elimus glau- 
cus might replace the tropical plants and tender 
grasses (like Pampas) that formed those delightful 
examples, thus making permanent plantings instead 
of ephemeral ornaments of a season, and this too, 
without losing the spirit of the original scheme. 
There is variety yet unity in such a combination, 
and withal a style that is in keeping with architect- 
ural lines and masses. 
It will be recalled that the Fair plantings refer- 
red to had clipped lawns in the fore-ground, the re- 
taining wall of the upper terrace, surmounted by a 
heavy railing, as an inmediate background, while 
a little beyond rose the wall of a building. One 
end of each somewhat long and comparatively nar- 
row planting was close in the angle formed by the 
retaining wall and descending flight of steps, and 
in this corner the tallest growing specimens were 
placed, and from them the growths sloped down- 
wards, but not too regularly, for the line was brok- 
en, and diversified by well chosen species, until 
each group ended with a plant of somewhat low 
growth that blended its lower leaves with the grass 
of the lawn. The front edge of each planting was 
also of such plants as are clothed to the ground, so 
that without any sharply defined lines, there were 
