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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
I. Water Margins, Gkaceland Ckmetkry, Chicago. The Foliage is principally that of our Native Dogwoods (Cornus 
Stolonifera), Virginia Creeper, Snow Berries, Syringas, Willows, Lindens and Elms. 
MARGINAL PLANTING. 
A landscape without water features may pos- 
sess distinctive beauty, but the combination with a 
lake or stream, possesses, to say the least, an added 
charm. Both in parks and cemeteries after their 
earlier stages of development, the advantage of 
combining the waterscape with the landscape for 
diversity of attraction is realized, and there are 
very few public grounds of importance, of either 
class, without some water features to enhance their 
beauty. 
To be attractive however, the waterscape de- 
mands positive ability in its design and marginal 
planting, as may be so readily discerned in many 
of the examples we have within the reach of most 
lovers of landscape art. Effects must be considered 
for all the four seasons, and whether the planting 
entirely surrounds the water, or diversity of ar- 
rangement is attempted, so as to permit stretches 
of lawn to the water’s edge, the choice of material 
and its grouping must be such as to provide har- 
monious, and graceful conditions at all times. 
The illustrations herewith presented need no 
verbiage to describe them. They are in keeping 
with the other features of the splendid landscape 
development of Graceland cemetery, Chicago, car- 
ried out by Mr. O. C. Simonds, the superintendent. 
It is a carefully studied planting scheme, in 
which there is nothing obtrusive, but wherein each 
component factor has a place to fill and fills it, and 
that, moreover, to the promotion of harmonious 
and picturesque results. The illustrations also de- 
monstrate the effectiveness which can be secured 
from native and local material. Mr. Simonds is a 
strong advocate of scouring the neighborhood for 
suitable plants and trees for decorative planting 
work, and there are very few localities from which 
there may not be drawn all that is required for the 
most advanced landscape designing. 
The advantages of such a course of procedure 
in landscape work is obvious, and needs no com- 
ment now. 
Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Conn. 
Mr. Charles Nichols, superintendent of Fair- 
mount cemetery, Newark, N. J., while en route for 
home after attending the New Haven Convention 
