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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
The accompanying illustrations will convey a 
correct conception of scenes in Elm Grove Cem- 
etery. 
The cemetery has a receiving vault which is lo- 
cated in one of the most beautiful portions of the 
grounds, and is surrounded by monuments of 
choice and finished work, both in material and art. 
IN MEMORIAM. 
These passionless marble tributes of affection 
and devotion, speak by night and by day of love 
undying, of love that: 
‘‘Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, 
Glows in the stars and blossoms in the trees; 
Lives in all life, extends through all extent. 
Spreads undivided, operates unspent.” 
Elm Grove Cemetery Assn., M. 
Mystic, Conn. 
Flower Beds at Girard College, Philadelphia. 
Our illustration shows one of the flower beds 
at the famous Girard College, Philadelphia. The 
BED OF CROTONS, GIRARD COLLEGE, PHILADELPHIA. 
flower beds at this institution delight thousands of 
visitors in the summer time. The grounds consist 
of about 40 acres, and though much of it has to be 
reserved for recreation grounds for the 1,500 boys 
which the college contains, there is ample room re- 
served for the ornamental department, which is 
mainly near the entrance and adjacent to the main 
building. 
A large round bed near the building has for a 
center piece a nice plant of a palm, Latania Bor- 
bonica, and it fits its position nicely. Around it 
are the dwarf French cannas now indispensable for 
summer bedding. They are of many and beautiful 
colors, and bloom till frost. Next comes the plant 
with rosy bronze leaves, Acalypha musaica, its like 
for usefulness hardly to be found. Following 
this is the Achyranthes Verschafifelti, with its dark 
red leaves. Next comes a variegated leaved gera- 
nium, Mountain of snow, and lastly, and on the 
outside. Coleus Golden Bedder. The whole makes 
an imposing bed. 
The bed illustrated is made up mainly of 
Crotons, most useful plants, because of their beau- 
tiful foliage and that they delight in the hot sum- 
mer weather. These plants are not hard to strike 
from cuttings. Mr. George Huster, who has had 
charge of the grounds for 22 years, by the way, tells 
me that contrary to the general way, he keeps the 
plants growing all winter, so that his young plants 
rooted the previous season are large enough for his 
bedding uses. Though the plants in this bed are 
mainly of one kind, there are numerous crotons. A 
bed of them is as pretty as any plant could make 
one. 
The carpet bedding, a little of which is 
shown on the right of the picture, is a pretty fea- 
ture of the grounds. The contents of each bed are 
different from the others. As a guide I will name 
what one contains: Center, Madame Thibaut, dou- 
ble pink geranium, edged with row of Verschafifelti 
coleus, and an outer edging or border of Coleus 
Golden Bedder. 
Anyone visiting Philadelphia in Aug- 
ust or September should not fail to visit 
the grounds of Girard College. 
Joseph Meehan. 
A writer in The Garden, London, says, 
one of the best double Lilacs is Leon Si- 
mon. A good double white with very 
large blossoms is Madame Lemoine, with 
a companion single variety Madame Le- 
graye, less vigorous however. Souve- 
nir de Louis Spath is a richly colored 
variety. 
Foundations. 
In the erection of monumental work there is no 
generally accepted standard for foundations. Mod- 
ern cemeteries have adopted rules and regulations 
governing their construction, but they differ so 
widely that the builder in search of a stand- 
ard, would doubtless be confused in attempt- 
ing to discover any certain type that would meet 
all the requi-ements under all conditions. 
Foundations are either good or bad; there are 
no medium grades. The object to be obtained in 
using them is to secure permanency and durability, 
hence any feature of them that is partially wrong 
must become wholly so; for a weak spot in the 
foundation will, in time, disintegrate the entire 
structure placed upon it In this issue of the Park 
AND Cemetery we present our readers with a few 
ideas illustrating the different methods used in con- 
structing foundations, together with the good and 
bad points of each. 
