PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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ORNAMENTAL PLANTING AT MT. ELLIOTT CEME- 
TERY, DETROIT, MICH. 
Effective permanent planting, to any extent, in 
old cemeteries crowded with grave mounds, monu- 
ments and headstones of every imaginable design 
is a difficult undertaking, and even discouraging 
when valuable trees and shrubs have to be torn out 
to make room for some meaningless piece of stone- 
work. Still we push on and make the best of what 
is left. When planting, we have invariably two 
objects in view. 
First, to produce certain pleasing effects. 
Second, to shut out some unsightly object. 
Referring to the illustration, Plate i, the open 
space and small work lying adjacent to the “Ma- 
honey Monument,” is the result of such treatment. 
All plants shown in the view are perfectly hardy 
with the exception of the large leaved plant at the 
head of the anchor, musa ensete, and the anchor, 
which was formed of echeveria metal ica, the most 
beautiful of all the echeverias for such display. The 
large tree in front is an i\merican elm, with a bank 
of Irish ivy at base; many shoots of this vive run 
up from three to seven feet during the summer, 
through the creeping variegated euouymus estab- 
lished on the trunk, and which was illustrated in a 
previous issue of PARK AND CEMETERY. The ivy 
generally gets killed down to snow line every win- 
ter, but the bank of glossy green foliage of the ivy 
in summer, rising in places two feet around the tree 
group of Eulalias and Erianthus. The shrubs are 
Exochorda grandiflora. Spiraea Van Houttei, and 
S. Reeves, double, Cerasus Serotina and Ailanthus 
Glandulosa. The latter is cut down every sprii g 
within one foot of the ground which keeps it within 
certain bounds, and produces larger and more 
beautiful foliage when so treated. To right of, and 
in line with the monument is a pyramidal plant of 
Juniperus Virginica and an American Arborvitm 
which shut out from view some unsightly slabs of 
marble. To the left on the margin of the avenue is 
a Retinispora pessifera and in the background, a 
Norway spruce. 
The semi-circular beds iri rear of the office and 
waiting room, Plate 2 , were composed of Gannas — 
Vaughan, Henderson and Oueen Charlotte, with 
marginal finish of Pennisetum. 
In addition to Cannas of the best varieties, and 
a general collection of beddiiig stock, we use many 
other plants which produce large and attractive fo- 
liage, such as Centaurea Babylonica, Nicotianas, 
Solanums and Wigandias. 7'he flowers of these 
plants are not by any means as attractive as the 
leaves, but the plants are at all times picturesque. 
The selection of the most beautiful and useful from 
the great mass of plants, is one of the most impor- 
tant duties of the planter, whose desire it is to pre- 
sent pleasing combinations. I imagine that we get 
better results from canna beds, that are planted 
with a view to having a variety in their color of 
PLATE I. PLANTING ABOUT THE MAHONEY MONUMENT. 
and running at random out on the grass forms a flower and foliage in the same bed, with due re- 
pleasing and attractive base for the euonymus. gard to height, tapering from center to margin, than 
In rear of the elm and back about fifty feet is a when a mass of one color and height is set in beds. 
