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Glass Bricks in Horticultural Buildings. 
Visitors to the Chicago Exposition will remem- 
ber the little building exhibited by M. Falconiere 
to show the method of using glass bricks for the 
construction of fern houses and houses for other 
shade loving plants. One of your correspondents 
afterwards pointed out the immense structural pos- 
sibilities afforded by this material if employed in 
architectural designs of a suitable kind. M. Fal- 
coniere seems to be impressed with the same idea 
as is shown in the Scientific American of January 2. 
This little structure is certainly much more sug- 
gestive than was that of the World’s Fair. Really, 
however, the true province of the glass brick seems 
to be to relieve the barn-like ugliness of the con- 
servatories. If it were used in conjunction with iron 
in much the same manner as brick or other material 
is used in the skyscrapers there is no limit to the 
gracefulness and variety of outline that the conser- 
vatory might assume. Eastern architecture would 
be most profitably studied because it combines the 
greatest variety of form combined with the low roofs 
essential to economy of heating. Many of the mag- 
nificent mausoleums of Futtepore and Agra are 
especially rich in their combinations of exquisite 
domes surmounting low ranges of hip and gable- 
roofed structures of extreme lightness and beauty. 
There is danger, of course, that such architecture 
might be prostituted in the hands of the unskilled 
and tasteless, but there are indications that M. Fal- 
coniere is alive to these forms. Something has been 
said as to color, and green seems to have been a 
preference for the coloring of glass thus far. If the 
coloring material is good and the glass is not sub- 
ject to become reddish it has a handsome appear- 
ance and, except in dull climates, is beneficial to 
shade loving plants. Another beautiful shade of 
color for hothouses is light blue and white. These 
were the colors employed by Sir Sir Joseph Paxton 
at the Crystal Palace, London. Once properly ap- 
preciated, we feel sure there is a great future in 
store for these glass bricks, not alone in the forms 
they may produce, but in economy, durability and 
the equalization of heat and moisture. For the lin- 
ing of dairies and buildings requiring dryness they 
should also be of service, but we can conceive some 
clever architect in conjunction with a skilled gar- 
dener producing a building by the aid of this mate- 
rial and iron as famous for beauty of outline as the 
Taj-Mahal. 
Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky. 
Through ignorance of financial matters a glar- 
ing error regarding the standing of the Cave Hill 
Cemetery Co., crept into my description of that in- 
teresting cemetery in the December issue of Park 
AND Cemetery. The statement of its condition 
should have read thus: 
“The perpetuity of the cemetery is insured by 
a fund created by paying over to the Cave Hill 
Investment Co., one-tenth of the proceeds of the 
sale of all lots until the fund shall have amounted to 
$200,000. This fund is managed by the Cave Hill 
Investment Co., chartered in 1882, and is to be 
held and applied to the preservation and ornamenta- 
tion of the grounds. The income from it is to be 
reinvested, and no part of it used, except for the 
necessary expenses of the company, until eight- 
tenths of the lots are sold, or until the par value of 
the fund shall equal $200,000. Then the income 
may be paid over to the managers of the cemetery 
to be used by them in caring for the grounds.” 
Cemetery officials will, of course, understand 
from this that the fund held by the Cave Hill In- 
vestment Co., has not yet reached $200,000. 
The fact is that instead of receiving interest 
from that company the Cemetery Co., pays several 
hundred dollars each month into the fund. 
The article also gave a wrong impression re- 
garding native forest trees, as a part of the grounds 
contain many noble specimens of numerous species 
— only a part of the enclosure having been denuded 
of its indigenous growth by the soldiers encamped 
in the grounds during the war. 
And the cemetery was laid out by David Ross, 
the first superintendent, and merely platted by 
Benjamin Grove. 
To make the account accurate to the last degree 
I note the obviously erroneous wording as to the 
largest secHon having an area of 2,500 square feet — 
that being the size of the largest lot. 
Regret for these errors would be deeper did not 
their correction serve to call further attention to a 
cemetery well worth a visit from every cemetery 
official in the country. F. C. S. 
Clergymen Aiding in flodernizing Cemetries. 
The Rev. Mr. Purdy, an Episcopal minister 
from Minneapolis, after an absence of 10 years 
from a former pastorate was called upon to re-visit 
the scenes of his old charge to officiate at the fun- 
eral of one of his former parishioners. The numer- 
ous changes that time had wrought were to him too 
apparent. But more especially was he impressed 
with the improvements made in the old time ceme- 
tery, where some of his dear family were at rest. 
The following Sunday he addressed the members of 
his old church, the subject of his address being 
“The old Pioneers and the Cemetery.” Remarking 
how many vacancies there were among the once 
familiar faces of his friends, so many of whom 
