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PARK AND CE/AETERY 
A Pretty Cemetery in England. 
During my visit to England the past sum- 
mer it was my good fortune to visit many a beau- 
tiful public and private grounds. Among others 
was the Cemetery at Ryde, Isle of Wight, and find- 
ing it a very pretty one and one made beautiful in 
many ways, I made some 
notes 
I 
ENTRANCE TO AN ENGLISH CEMETERY. 
concerning it, which 
sure will interest your 
readers, and 
through the kind- 
ness of the gener- 
a 1 superintend- 
ent, Mr. Butcher, 
I obtained from 
him photographs 
of the entrance 
and of the chap- 
el. The Ceme- 
tery is of about ten acres, and belongs to the town of 
Ryde. The smaller photograph shows the entrance 
gates, and standing there the visitor sees, at almost 
fifty yards distance, the chapels, with archway and 
spire connecting them. The larger photograph 
shows the reverse side of the chapels shown in the 
smaller one. One of these chapels s used by the 
Protestants, the other by dissenters, while the Cath- 
olics, who have a portion of the grounds to them- 
selves, use neither one, but hold their services out- 
side. The fifty yards between the entrance gates 
and the chapels display a most successful effort at 
ornamental gardening. The neat gravel road is 
rather lower than the surrounding land, especially 
on the one side. The slopes from the higher ground 
to the roadway had been planted with flowers, 
which were beautifully in bloom, and made of the 
entrance a lovely picture. In width these borders 
were about 4 feet. Perhaps just the same kind of 
flowers would not do here, but I name them as I 
found them. The right hand border had for an 
edging a row of the compact growing blue lobelia; 
next, the yellow flowered Gazania splendens; next, 
geraniums in various colors; then heliotrope. The 
left hand one contained as a border blue lobelia, 
with a white flowered one closely set to it, then as- 
sorted geraniums, and in the back rows assorted 
ever-blooming roses, flags, poppies and other. per- 
ennials. As a background to both borders were 
many broad-leaved evergreens, for which this part 
of England is particularly famous. To aid in un- 
derstanding the effect of the combination, I should 
add that the path alongside the flowers was made of 
red gravel. The two spreading evergreens which 
show, one on each side of the drive by the chapel, 
are of the Picea pinsapo, a tree very much planted 
The tall tree on the right is the Se- 
in England 
quoia gigantea, which I find is rarely seen in first- 
class condition there, any more than it is with us. 
And near this tall tree is seen the ends of a few 
branches of the Aruacaria imbricata, which is a nice 
specimen of about 20 feet in height. Partly cover- 
ing the wall of both chapels is to be seen the Coton- 
easter microphylla. It bears pretty scarlet berries, 
which its small, bright green foliage sets off to good 
advantage. On the northwestern side of the chapel 
was a fine bed of a fern, which appeared to be 
Asplenium filix-mas. The fronds were nearly 3 
feet in length, and all the plants showed great lux- 
uriance. As elsewhere in England, the Lauson 
Cypress, Thujopsis borealis and Cupressus macro- 
carpa, are largely used on the grounds, as is also 
the Yucca gloriosa. One Lauson Cypress was 20 
feet high by as many in width; a Thujopisis I2 feet 
high by 1 5 feet wide, and a Thuja gigantea of 
like fine proportions. It will be seen that our Pa- 
cific coast evergreens have been largely draw on 
here, and deodar cedars here and there are fittingly 
used. • At the time of my first visit to this Ceme- 
tery, in early June, the flowering horse chestnut 
was in splendid bloom. So also was the laburnum, 
and hawthorns of various colors added their charms. 
I found the red flowered horse chestnut a great fa- 
vorite in England, seeing more than one avenue of 
it, and splendidly it thrives. The burial lots are 
not as wide as are usually found in cemeteries at 
home. Ours are usually large enough to take in 
all the members of a family in separate graves, but 
VIEW OF CHAPELS AND ENTRANCE FROM INSIDE. 
a great many of the enclosed lots here contain but 
the one grave. I noticed, however, that in many 
cases more than one interment had been made in 
the same grave. There are all kinds of methods of 
enclosing lots as there are in certain localities with 
us. The railings of some lots were beautifully fes- 
