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display in the interests of a harmonious scheme. The beautiful, refresh- 
ing scene illustrated in the opening page should be a potent argument 
in favor of landscape efforts in cemetery work. This suppression of ob- 
trusiveness in the way of lot monuments, has been generally concurred in 
by the lot owners and this lends itself to a scheme of landscape decora- 
tion, in a great measure, unmarred by the too prominent recurrence of 
masses of stone work. The illustration of the entrance gates combined 
with the beautiful scene are characteristic views, speaking louder than 
words, contrasting nature with man’s handiwork, both, however, invok- 
ing a spirit of humility and reverence suggested by the surroundings. 
M.vl> OF CROWN HILL CEMETERY, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. 
Garden Plants, — Their Geography. VI. 
CARYOPHYLLALES. 
THE DIANTHUS, PORTtJLACA, AND TAMARIX ALLIANCE. 
This alliance has eight tribes, sixty-three gen- 
era, and 1322 species, largely distributed over the 
temperate regions of the Northern and Southern 
Hemispheres. But few are tropical. But few are 
trees. Several are shrubs, but the greater number 
are perennial and annual herbaceous plants. Sever- 
al are evergreens even in North America. 
Frankenia — “Sea Heaths” have thirty species 
widely distributed over the sea beaches and des- 
erts of the earth. F. laevis is a pretty little pink flow- 
ered plant growing on the Eastern coast of England. 
F. pulverulenta is one of the very rarest of Brit- 
ish plants. I have the herbarium catalogue of a 
British botanist before me which took many years 
to make up, and which gives many out of the way 
localities — but not this little annual. It has been 
collected on the Sussex coast however. There are 
two species found in the United States. As these 
little trailers are mostly evergreen, the species from 
Siberia, the Caucassus and similar regions may be 
useful for rockeries and near the sea. 
Dianthus has 225 species distributed over Eu- 
rope, Asia, Africa, and N. W. America. The ge- 
nus embraces the Carnations, Cloves, Picotees, and 
Sweet Williams, together with many beautiful spe- 
cies. They are so well known that they scarcely 
need commendation. A few of them, however. 
