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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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Mr- s 
MEMORIAL TO THE UNKNOWN DEAD. (From Picturcsque Oakwood.) 
Soldiers’ Memorial, Oakwood 
Cemetery, Syracuse, 
N. Y. 
The Woman’s Relief Corps 
adopted a vase, illustrated here- 
with, for their memorial to The 
Unknown Dead, on the Sold- 
ier’s lot in Oakwood Ceme- 
tery, Syracuse, New York. 
This form of memorial is rare, 
and its adaptability for such a 
purpose has been quite gener- 
ally overlooked. 
It is true that in certain 
seasons of the year it is shorn 
of its natural embellishments, 
but the design of this vase may 
be such that it will form an at- 
tractive feature at any time, 
and art has exercised itself 
through all the ages on the 
vase, so that from the stand- 
point of design there is great 
latitude. 
The plants flourishing in 
the vase at the time the photo- 
graph was taken are as follows: 
Cannas for the Centre, — Palms 
may be used; Geraniums, Col- 
eus, Begonias, Dracenas, 
Fuchsias, Humulus, Nastur- 
tium, Petunias, Thunbergia, 
Torenia, Verbena, Vincas, An- 
themis, Clematis, Gaillardia, 
Lobelia, Pyrethrum, Euphor- 
bia, Ivy, Nierembergia, Ficus and Lantanas. The 
vase is a very large one requiring quite a stock of 
plants, but the effect is rich and with the elegance 
the class of plants impart. The foregoing list was 
kindly furnished by Mr. Burritt Chaffee, Supt. 
“Tam=na=Urich.” 
The Hill of the Fairies, at Inverness, N. B., the 
capital of the Scottish Highlands, is probably one 
of the most unique cemeteries in the world. For 
untold ages this isolated hill on the banks of the 
Ness had excited the wonderment of the Highland- 
ers who attributed to it a supernatural origin, so 
singular is this steep convexity, like a bowl turned 
down on a table. Sometime about 1865, the city 
purchased this hill for a Cemetery, and without any 
parade of plans, or the advertisement of those who 
suggested so daring an innovation, a burial mound 
was made of it which will endure for all time, and 
defy the sordid projects of generations of jerry- 
builders. 
The hill was lightly wooded, to smooth much of 
its surface was impossible, but a small portion of 
the top was levelled, and those lots no doubt held 
at a fancy figure. Strangely enough the very first in- 
terment upon the plateau was a suicide, and it was 
gruesome to hear the comments of the Highland 
Grannies, and their doubt whether the community 
could be justified for any money, in permitting such 
a burial in so prominent a place. “Would it not 
have been more seemly to have sought the seclusion 
of one of thae glens?” 
The road was carried from this platform down- 
wards at as nearly one grade as possible until the 
level was reached, and it wound round and round 
about like the thread of a screw, opening up all the 
glorious scenery of mountain, river, lake and Firth. 
I imagine Tam-na-Urich will never be seriously 
marred in its aspect, never suffer the obliteration of 
its features, never have the repose of its dead dis- 
turbed, but in its awesomeness and grandeur will 
endure and increase in solepinity down through all 
