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PARK AND CE/AETERY. 
ENTRANCE TO DELLWOOD CEMETERY, MANCHESTER, VT. 
Dellwood Cemetery, Manchester, Vermont. 
This cemetery was incorporated by act of legis- 
lature in 1865, and through the munificence of the 
late Mark Skinner and E. S Isham, of Chicago, and 
others, has become one of the most beautiful of the 
smaller cemeteries of the country. “Dellwood” is 
surrounded by 
mountains, the 
highest of which 
is 4000 feet. It 
is situated on a 
high elevation, 
almost the high- 
est point on the 
highway for fif- 
ty miles. Its dis- 
tance from New 
York City is a- 
bout two hun- 
dred miles, and it contains about twenty acres. It 
was originally laid out by the late Burton A. Thom- 
as of Albany, N. Y. 
The main avenue, commencing at the entrance, 
winds artistically over the more elevated ground to 
the valley beneath, eventually bringing one to its 
starting point at the entrance. There are also 
many smaller avenues or walks for pedestrians 
only and these are probably unsurpassed in the 
country, winding as they do under the thick spread- 
ing branches of Birch, Beech, Elm, Maple and 
Spruce, and in addition, being within the sound of 
the clear rippling brook of mountain spring water 
which runs through the entire length of the ceme- 
tery. 
At either end of the grounds there is a beauti- 
ful sheet of water, clear as crystal, which has been 
artificially made by damming the stream. Float- 
ing on these miniature lakes in summer are Nymph- 
aes in abundance throwing oft their sweet fragrance 
to the passer by. The avenues and walks re- 
ceive a good deal of attention and are made of fine 
white gravel, well packed. Flowering plants in 
summer are abundant in every part of the cemete- 
ry; here we find a border skirting one of the ave- 
nues, four hundred feet long and six feet wide, fill- 
ed with flowering plants and shrubs; then again we 
are confronted with a large circle containing an im- 
mense vase filled with vines and bright flowering 
plants standing in the center of a well kept piece of 
lawn of emerald green; outside of this is a border 
eight feet wide containing flowering plants and 
bright foliage. Again we cross a bridge which 
spans the stream and arrive at the highest point in 
the cemetery, and lying before us is a large circu- 
lar mound of beautiful lawn in the center of which 
is a twenty foot cross filled with double sweet Alys- 
SCENE IN DELLWOOD CEMETERY. 
