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trance through a square Norman tower 34 feet high. 
The interior is finished in buff colored brick and 
polished cypress, and will seat from 75 to 125 people. 
It was used for twenty funeral services during the 
past year, making a total of ninety since it was dedi- 
cated in 1900. The plans were by Architect George 
Harding, and the contractors were Clark & Bagg, of 
Pittsfield. 
The latest donation to the cemetery is a gift of 
$2,600 in bonds from Mr. George H. Laflin, the only 
condition being that the donor’s lot shall be kept in 
perpetual care. 
Pittsfield Cemetery is seventy-three acres in extent, 
and the corporation owns in addition about 70 acres of 
building lots and a farm of 170 acres near Onota 
Lake, part of which is to be sold, and the rest used 
for an addition to the cemetery. It has recently al- 
most completed the work of removing the lot enclos- 
ures, so that there are now few of the fences, hedges 
and copings that were so numerous twenty years ago. 
MEMORIAL GATE 
AND CHAPEL 
PITTSFIELD 
CEMETERY 
Garden Plants— Their Geog'raphy-C. 
( Liliales — Continued.) 
Yucca has about twenty species and several varie- 
ties, some of which are handsomely variegated. They 
are found from the Southern United States, south- 
westward through Mexico to Central America. Sev- 
eral are herbs with spiny pointed leaves, others are 
palm-like trees. They often bear immense panicles 
of white filiform flowers, generally growing upright, 
but drooping in the large “palmiste” Y. filifera. Y. 
filamentosa in several varieties, including a pretty 
variegated one, Y. angustifolia, and Y. recurvifolia in 
variety, the latter hardy to the vicinity of West 
Point, are best adapted to the north. Y. recurvifolia 
variegata does not seem to be known in American 
gardens. 
Dracaena, Cordyline and Dasylirion are warm coun- 
try genera, well known north as tender decorative 
plants. Several endure at the lower south. 
Asphodelus is given six or seven species, natives of 
India, the Mascarine Islands and the Mediterranean 
regions. A. comosus is from the N. W. Himalaya. 
A. fistulosus, A. ramosus, A. Villarsii and varieties are 
S. European. They are rather good white flowered 
herbs. 
Asphodelinc has fourteen species from the same 
regions. They generally have leafy stems. A. lutea 
and A. liburnica are yellow flowered. Several others 
are white. 
Paradisia, “St. Bruno’s lilv,” is a monotypic plant, 
a native of the Alps of Jura, the Apenincs and 
Pyrenes. 
Bulbinella is a genus of thirteen species, some of 
which are handsome. They are found in the Camp- 
bell and Aukland Islands, New Zealand, and South 
Africa. B. Hookerii is regarded the best of the 
genus, but B. Rossii when well grown is an imposing 
plant. These were reported hardy near Lake Ontario 
(N. Y.) some years since, and if really so they are 
another interesting example of the not infrequent 
hardihood of bulbs and tubers from warmer climates. 
Eremurus in eighteen species have in some cases 
unusually large spikes of flower. They are found from 
the Himalayas north to Siberia and eastward through 
Asiatic Russia and Persia to Asia Minor. Seven or 
eight are in European gardens, but are little known. 
The four to eight feet high E. robustus in pink and 
more rarely white, and the smaller E. Himalaicus 
white, have been flowered in botanical and fanciers’ 
gardens north to Massachusetts and even Chicago, I 
believe ; but it is necessary to buy the quite large roots 
to obtain flowers in any reasonable time, and they are 
scarce and expensive. It is a tiresome business to 
grow them from seed. Most of the species require dry 
winters, and the roots are best protected by pine- 
needles, sawdust, or ashes, and shingled with boards. 
Antliericum is a name which has been applied to a 
number of plants which do not now bear it. They are 
fleshy rooted or bulbous herbs with white and green, 
or yellow and green, flowers. They are found prin- 
cipally in Europe, America and temperate Africa. 
Agapanthus in three species are the well-known 
“African lilies.” They are hardy in California and the 
lower south, but are the better of shade from trees 
