PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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IMPROVEMENTS IN GLENWOOD CEMETERY, 
ONEIDA, N. Y. 
The accompanying sketch shows some recent 
improvements made in Glenwood Cemetery, 
Oneida, N. Y., concerning which a correspondent 
contributes the following: 
One of your readers had occasion a short time 
ago to visit Glenwood Cemetery in Oneida, N. Y. 
The association controlling this property owns 
about thirty-three acres of land — only a part of 
which has been used for cemetery purposes. 
Wishing to extend its available ground last 
spring, the trustees commissioned Mr. Roderick 
Campbell, an experienced landscape gardener of 
Utica, N. Y., to lay out the new land. It may be 
noted that Mr. Campbell was for twenty-one years 
the superintendent of Forest Hill Cemetery, Utica. 
At Glenwood the task before Mr. Campbell 
was not an enviable one, one part of the new land 
had had scattered burials upon it, lots had been 
sold, and the land partly terraced in the style so 
popular in cemeteries thirty years ago. Another 
part was a high irregular sand hill, also partly 
used; but the third part, a large rough swamp, was 
least available of all, and seemed useless for his 
purposes. 
One who viewed the land last year, and who 
comes upon it to-day, will certainly not recognize 
the place. The terrace has been cut down and its 
contents made to help fill the swamp 
— the same may be said of the hill, 
and while the old lots in either piece 
of ground are retained intact, with 
monuments lowered to the new level, 
the area has been extended to include 
many new lots and is laid out in 
walks, paths and shrubbery. By 
careful plotting almost 50 per cent 
of new land has been added to both 
the terrace and hill plots. 
These grounds now look down 
upon beautiful Sylvan Water, a small 
lake, with beautiful graded banks 
and trees, and encircled by a wide 
drive. It is fed by a winding stream 
running through an irregular but 
beautiful ravine from a never-failing 
spring just on the edge of the old 
swamp. 
The old sv/^amp has gone; part 
is as the reader may have guessed, 
the Lake Sylvan Water, and enough 
has been reclaimed to add 100 large 
lots to the border of Sylvan Water 
on its farther side. 
This piece of ground contains the 
ravine spoken of above, which is shut 
in by trees and tasteful rock work. 
Here seats invite the weary, and the 
wild beauties of the place give him 
rest. 
One approaches the hill bypaths 
through shrubbery skirting its base, 
and after this climb the view of 
Madison and Oneida counties, as 
they stretch for forty miles in either direction, 
amply repays one. 
It is difficult to see how more beauty and value 
could possibly be added to the spot. They who 
sleep here will certainly “rest in peace.” 
Utica, N. Y. L. H. 
The Kaiser’s taste for formal landscape garden- 
ing and statuary is believed to be the real cause of 
the destruction of two thousand large trees which 
have been cut down in the Berlin Thiergarten. 
