PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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sake. The main path, through the centre of it, is 
shown in the illustration as well as the arched en- 
trance and gate leading from the vegetable to the 
flower garden. I am told that Queen Victoria 
thought this gate so pretty that she had a similar 
one erected at Osborne. The rose on the right 
hand side of the gate is the lovely Reve d’ Or, a 
climbing tea, not unlike Gloire de Dijon. On the 
left is a yellow Banksian; if I have not made a mis- 
take a glimpse is had of the peach and plum trees 
trained to the wall. Every portion of the walls is 
occupied in this way, the trees being peach, plum, 
pear, cherry and apricot. A good deal of care is 
given to the pruning of them, and good crops of 
fruit are borne. Besides the division of the garden 
by the paths, espalier trees — trees trained fan 
shape, make further divisions. 
The vegetable and fruit in this garden were all 
that could be wished, and this garden had been 
used as it was then for over 50 years, kept up by 
stable manure every year and by rotating the crops. 
Emerging from the kitchen garden the entrance 
to the pleasure grounds is past a large planting of 
rhododendrons. These plants are so large that a 
pith through them is arched by their large limbs; I 
think some of them were 20 feet high. 
The soil of the grounds while loamy on the sur- 
face, has a stiff clay for subsoil, and it seems just 
whit roses delight in judging from the luxuriance 
of those seen. The many semi-tropical plants 
flourishing there, the verdantlawn, grand old trees, 
the statuary showing here and there among the 
shrubs, combined to make a picture which will 
abide by me many a day. 
Joseph Meehan. 
L.\K;E VIEW CEMETERY, SKANEATELES, NEW YORK 
Present indications point to a general improve- 
ment in the conditions of the small cemeteries over 
the land, a matter upon which all who have taken 
active interest in the promotion of so good a work, 
may well congratulate themselves. While the sen- 
timent is becoming generally diffused, there are 
many localities where an enlightened public opin- 
ion encouraged certain citizens to undertake im- 
provement in neglected burial grounds, who can 
already feel greatly gratified at the progress made. 
Among these may be mentioned Lake View Ceme- 
tery, Skaneateles, New York, and the following ac- 
count and comment on efforts and results, contrib- 
uted by Mr. Geo. H. Wicks, superintendent of the 
cemetery, are interesting and suggestive. Two 
views are also given. 
At this time of strong effort all over our coun- 
try to awaken interest in the care of cemeteries, 
and to improve the old “God’s Acres” which are 
scattered here and there, it is a pleasure to point to 
one in the state of New York as an example of 
what can be done in the improvement of old ceme- 
tery grounds. 
Lake View cemetery in the town of Skaneateles, 
N. Y., which originally occupied half an acre, has 
been enlarged from time to time in the last century, 
until now its area is about sixteen acres. For 
many years both the original and the added pieces 
of land were left to run up to weeds and brambles, 
making the location of graves hard to find, and 
many were lost. Now, while much credit is due 
to the originators of the idea of improvement, it has 
not been until the past ten years that anything like 
SOLDIER'S MONUMENT, LAKE VIEW CEMETERY, 
SKANEATELES, N. Y. 
a business like and systematic plan of permanent 
improvement has been inaugurated. 
While the commissioners have tried the best 
they could to institute the “Lawn Plan,” it will 
probably remain impossible to carry it out fully, on 
account of the careless manner in which monuments, 
headstones, etc., were allowed to be put up, and 
the walks and drives originally laid out. Especially 
is this the great difficulty in the older parts, where 
the dilapidated condition of things as found when 
steps were first taken to improve them, was most 
discouraging. Some of the old residents who 
