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PARK AND CE/AETERY. 
every plant on the ground, and the laborer ready at 
the word, no great difficulty was experienced, and 
the same facility offers right here in North Amer- 
ica, providing of course that some farmer who does 
not know whether there are lOO species of plants in 
the vegetable kingdom or 1 50, undertakes to dic- 
tate the whole affair, and order the building of a 
fine big Gymnasium by “Jiminy Criky. ” 
Trenton, N. J. James McPhersim. 
Shelter House, Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky. 
The accompanying illustration represents an at- 
tractive little shelter house, in Cave Hill Cemetery, 
Louisville, Ky. It is about eighteen feet square, 
and the same in height, constructed in the rustic 
style, and now handsomely decorated by honey- 
suckles and 'English Ivy. The exterior is covered 
with oak bark, laid the St. Andrews’ cross pattern. 
The porch is carried by six posts in the natural 
state. The interior is finished in hard wood. It is 
well lighted by large windows and is heated by an 
old style fire-place. The chimney is constructed of 
large rough limestone blocks. The toilet room is 
in the basement. The little building cost $700, is 
an ornament to the grounds and is highly appreci- 
ated by the lot owners and visitors. To the left of 
the house is a rriagnificent specimen of Salisburia 
Adiantifolia, sixty feet high and some forty feet 
spread. 
Trees. 
The cultivation and study of trees very natural- 
ly and almost unavoidably, lead to contemplation 
and reflection. One can hardly imagine a more ap- 
propriate place for the exhibition of those beauti- 
ful wonders of nature, than the quiet and peaceful 
sanctuary of the dead. Every man who has the 
opportunity of planting a tree and avails himself 
not of it, waives the privilege which is thus given 
him of benefiting posterity. While men sleep trees 
grow; and after adding, during their growth, to the 
beauty of the landscape, providing shade and shel- 
ter, they also ameliorate the climate and soil of 
their location. Judicious planting and the cultiva- 
tion of the various kinds of forest trees, belong to 
the first branch of the economic art. 
The arboriculturist, in particular, will find 
Spring Grove Cemetery a place of great interest. It 
has been the desire of the directory from the first 
to introduce a variety of suitable representatives of 
the vegetable kingdom into these grounds. In this 
they were considerably assisted by the lot-holders 
themselves, the most prominent of them being 
members of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society, 
which society originated the idea of establishing a 
rural cemetery in the vicinity of the “Queen City 
of the West.” 
The greater part of the grounds, when purchas- 
ed, was, as stated before, densely covered with na- 
tive forest trees. In the lower or southern portion, 
the elm, sycamore and ash predominate. The cen- 
tral part of the grounds is chiefly covered with tu- 
lip trees, sugar maple, sassafras, etc., while the 
western portion is almost exclusively occupied with 
beech, sour gum, redbud, and dogwood. The 
northern part is adorned with some of the finest 
groves of various kinds of oak, of nature’s own 
planting centuries ago. The effect produced by the 
brilliant colors which most of these trees and shrubs 
assume in autumn, is truly magnificent. 
The introduction of varieties of evergreens, 
whose perennial verdure is particularly appropriate 
for ornamenting places of sepulture, has contribut- 
ed much to mitigate the bleak desolation of winter. 
The pine, the cedar, the cypress, the yew, and the 
ivy, are already embalmed in sepulchral literature. 
There is, perhaps, no tribe of plants, not ex- 
cepting even the oaks, which claim more admira- 
tion than the genus pinus, nor any that brings with 
it so many pleasing recollections or associations of 
thought. In the scriptures, which abound in sub- 
lime and beautiful allusions to the woods and for- 
est scenery of Syria and Palestine, the various spe- 
cies of the pine tribe stand eminently conspicuous. 
In the forty-first chapter of Isaiah, Jehovah says: 
“I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, — I will 
set in the desert the fir tree and the pine.” Sever- 
al of the grand old cedars, which are believed to 
have been in their prime when Solomon built the 
temple, are still standing in a gorge on Mount Leb- 
anon. The bark of the most ancient has, in many 
cases, been cut away to afford room for carving the 
names of Christian visitors. To protect from such 
wanton and stupid injury these biblical emblems of 
strength, is a work in which Protestant, Catholic, 
Jew, and Moslem should join. 
