122 
PARK AND CEMETERY 
VIEW IN GRACELAND CEMETERY, CHICAGO. 
ments is well shown by such illustrations as the ac- 
companying “before and after’’ views. The condition 
of supposedly imperishable memorials is clearly de- 
picted by photographs of scenes that were until re- 
cently common in the ancient, disused burial grounds 
of London. The improvement of these unsightly con- 
ditions is due to the work of “the greatest improve- 
ment organization in the world,” the Metropolitan Pub- 
lic Gardens Association of London, Eng. As may be 
plainly seen by a careful scrutiny of these two cuts, 
the only lasting memorials are landscape features pure 
and simple — the trees and the grass. Surely these 
views emphasize as words can- 
not the advantages of the burial 
park of the present civilization 
over the fenced and mounded 
stone yards of the past. Thought- 
ful, unbiased study and consid- 
eration of the subject will tend 
to confirm the fact that new con- 
ditions and improved taste will 
not long countenance the ostenta- 
tious burial practices the perpetua- 
tion of which is due to blindly and 
thoughtlessly following in the foot- 
steps of our predecessors. We are 
continuing customs that have 
grown to be mere routine. 
burial grounds and is an example 
of the highest type of the American 
“rural” cemetery. Note: (i) The 
park-like general effect; (2) the 
restful expanses of open lawn and 
grassy borders; (3) the graceful 
natural growth of trees and shrubs, 
each being permitted to develop its 
own character, many of the trees 
with branches sweeping the 
ground ; (4) the correctly made 
roads and paths; (5) the absence 
of curbs ; (6) the sward level with 
the road at its margins and rising 
by natural slopes to higher levels on 
either side, with no sharp banks 
and artificial terrace effects to mar 
the surface lines; (7) the play of 
light and shade on the lawns and 
drive; (8) the conspicuous absence 
of stones and mounds. The tree in 
the foreground may be the family 
monument of a millionaire — a cus- 
tom that is becoming common among cultivated people. 
The Henry Clay lot, Lexington, Ky., cemetery, 
shown in the illustration, is a notable instance of the 
pleasing result of irregularity in the shape of cemetery 
sections. This plan permits and invites the use of 
trees and shrubbery as a background for monuments 
and as a finish for unoccupied space, as in the point at 
the intersection of the drives ; it also leaves certain 
triangles that are devoted exclusively to ornamental 
planting of a permanent character. The Lexington 
City cemetery is a fine example of this style of plotting. 
Frances Copley Seavey. 
Notes. 
This view, taken in Graceland 
cemetery, Chicago, admirably illus- 
trates several features that are of 
importance in the development of 
THE HENRY CLAY LOT, LEXINGTON CEMETERY, LEXINGTON, KY. 
