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making all lots rectangular, regardless of the shape 
of the sections; and the very unusual, if not unique 
system of selling all lots at a uniform price (which 
is now thirty-five cents per square foot) throughout 
the cemetery. 
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In Mr. Bell’s opinion, the last feature secures an 
even distribution of monuments, because purchas- 
ers are led by it to feel that one locality is just as 
desirable as another, and those who intend to erect 
costly monuments, naturally seek sites that will iso- 
late and set them ofif to advantage, while those who 
cannot afford expensive stone work usually select 
lots near those having good monuments, thus secur- 
ing the doubly desirable end of an even distribution 
of monuments, and the open, uncrowded effect ad- 
surroundings of the section, and as all of the unsold 
is space it is utilized either as open lawm or for dec- 
orative planting, it is a simple matter to grow a 
background of trees where it will serve to enhance 
the appearance of every lot in the section. Like- 
wise with shrubs or specimen trees, they can be 
introduced where they will improve the scheme and 
have room for proper development. 
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Beside these reserve spaces and the margins on 
avenues there are plots, mostly approaching trian- 
gles in shape, that occur at the intersection of di- 
verging drives, that are wholly reserved for decora- 
tive planting, and so are all of the so-called “sinks” 
characteristic of the limestone districts of Kentucky, 
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vocated by those who endorse the lawn plan, and 
that without apparent effort on the part of the man- 
agement. The system seems to have advantages 
for, as it stands, the oldest part of the ground looks 
far less crowded and stony than any old cemetery I 
have seen; in fact it only needs low markers and 
level graves to make it a modern cemetery. 
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Drives are rather numerous, because Mr. Bell’s 
experience leads him to disapprove of large sec- 
tions. The main avenues are 42 feet wide from lot 
to lot with a middle macadamized section twenty 
feet in width, and the intersecting avenues 28 feet 
wide with an 18 foot strip of macadam. This in- 
cludes a margin of six feet on each side of main and 
four feet on intersecting avenues that is reserved for 
sward or planting. The average width of sections is 
300 feet, and they are of all shapes: circular, oval, 
triangular, etc. Lots average twenty feet square. 
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The idea of making all lots rectangular without 
reference to the shape of the sections, seems a happy 
one. By nice planning the larger part of the un- 
sold space in any section can be thrown to one side 
or the other, as best suits the location, shape and 
AND NEW GROUNDS. 
of which there are several large ones within the en- 
closure. 
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These “sinks” offer opportunities for ornamental 
work that have been fully utilized. Some have 
been excavated and form ponds; the sides of the 
deepest one are occupied by the few vaults con- 
tained in the grounds, and others are given over to 
what is probably the most effective planting in the 
cemetery. In places their easy slopes are occupied 
by colonies of foxgloves, wild asters, coreopsis lan- 
ceolata and other flowering plants of wildling type 
naturalized among the abundant shrubs and vines; 
and hardy ferns in great variety find fitting homes 
in their well shaded nooks. On the rocky banks ot 
others, clumps of Prickly Pear and Yuccas add 
to the picturesque effect. Over the face of the 
one occupied by vaults, English Ivy and 
Japanese honeysuckles find foothold and send 
down long, trailing draperies of leaf and flower to 
relieve the masonry at the entrances and lend grace 
and fragrance to this unusual landscape feature. 
The largest “sink” is on the line between the old 
and new grounds, and is delightfully planted with 
trees, shrubs and vines. At the side towards the 
old grounds near the upper edge of the basin-like 
