PARK AND CEMETERY 
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Landscape Gardening, Frances Copley Seavey said: 
“Natural beauty is everywhere being irreparably de- 
faced and destroyed, and is often replaced by expen- 
sive artificial ugliness, because there is no one on the 
ground to recognize and save the one, or to> protest 
intelligently against the other.” To the lover of na- 
ture this is no dream ; political power and influence 
gives employment to many ignorant and consequently 
in some other work. We live in an age of novelties, 
and the creator or inventor of something novel, or 
new in art, literature, science, or even landscape work 
is sure to receive credit for his effort according to his 
success. 
The beauty of the picture afforded by this example 
of an artificial grotto, with its dark cavern, contrast- 
ing so decidedly with the sun-lit vista, and in cofinec- 
1. SITE OF GROTTO; ONE YEAR BEFORE CONSTRUCTION. THE CROSS MARKS THE POSITION OF THE GROTTO. 
2. THE SITE THREE MONTHS AFTER CONSTRUCTION. 3. THE MOUTH OF THE GROTTO. 
destructive workmen ; they must do something, and 
they do not count the cost, or the damage done ; six 
generations have lived and gone during the growth of 
a single tree that may fall by their hands in one short 
hour. 
Destroying all that is natural in order that we may* 
replace it by something wholly unnatural is not good 
landscape work. 
The little surprises, the ornamental nooks and cor- 
ners, well arranged vistas, that appear to be in just 
the right place— are sure to attract the public eye and 
help them to overlook the designer’s short-comings 
tion with the rock graden ; the stream of cool, clear 
water flowing from the interior and the cress bed be- 
low, has called forth many words of surprise and de- 
light. 
The length of the grotto underground is forty feet 
or more ; the width varies from two feet to eight, and 
the height from three to six feet. It is constructed of 
a water-worn limestone rock, all the exposed surfaces 
of which show such edges, and it was built during the 
winter of 1901-1902. It was planted in May and the 
photograph was taken in July, 1902. 
Sid J. Hare. 
