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Celtic Cross, usually made o f light col- 
ored granite , elaborate carving on front 
and back. Can be reduced to comparatively 
small sizes with good effect. 
are in many ways objectionable and unnecessary, and 
are highly detrimental to the appearance of the lots, 
as well as expensive to care for by the owners. A 
proper system of records with all 
graves carefully marked on the 
official plat makes mounding for 
identification purposes unneces- 
sary. Grave mounding appears to 
be only an ancient custom with no 
good reason for continued use, 
but with every reason for its abol- 
ishment. 
Monuments should be of 
absolutely durable materials, 
granite and standard bronze 
being superior to all others. Elaborate carving 
and profuse ornament detracts from durability 
and is harder to keep clean and in repair. 
Monuments must be in size proportioned to 
the lot, and should not cover a space of more than 
from 5 to io per cent of its area. All this should be 
dependent upon the other important questions of rela- 
tion of lot to section and cemetery. The design and 
other particulars should also be under control of com- 
petent advice, to avoid repetition of design and inap- 
propriateness to location and surroundings, and only 
one monument should be permitted on a lot under any 
circumstances. Where monuments are used, grave- 
markers should be inconspicuous and set level with the 
ground ; a granite tablet makes a permanent grave 
marker. Where a section contains a large proportion 
of small lots, or where it may be designed for small 
lots entirely, a liberal number should be sold under 
express condition that no monuments must be erected. 
This will prevent the section from becoming what is 
An all- polished monument , usually made of 
dark colored granite that takes a high polish. Pre- 
ferable in massive monuments. Simple in design. 
quite expressively termed a stone yard, and is abso- 
lutely necessary to the good appearance of the grounds. 
Proper regulations and charges should be arranged 
for the care of plants, grass, shrubbery and trees on 
lots, and such matters should be under the control of 
the official in charge, who should be competent to ad- 
vise on the choice of decorative plants and their rea- 
sonable or permanent care ; it is usual, however, to per- 
mit lot owners to set out their own flowers subject to 
such control. On small lots, wooden chairs and set- 
tees should not be allowed, nor vases for flowers. 
Small vases are not good receptacles for flowering 
plants, and an overcrowding of any kind of cemetery 
furniture on the grounds detracts most seriously from 
their attractiveness. 
The pruning, the care generally, the transplanting, 
or destruction of trees and plants, should be strictly 
under the care of a superintendent, for it surely can be 
seen by the simplest mind, that the appearance of a 
cemetery has a permanent value, subject only to the 
changes of nature, or the intelligent methods of a 
master gardener ; and that any interference by indi- 
vidual owners nteans detriment. 
Quite a serious problem for 
the small lot is that of monu- 
ments. What has been suggested 
as to control of design is an es- 
sential ruie. Duplication of ex- 
isting monuments cannot be per- 
mitted, and lot owners should be 
strongly advised that a cheap, 
poorly designed memorial will 
never be as satisfying as a 
beautiful shrub or tree ; on the 
other hand this planting of the 
small lot is necessarily restricted, so that after all we 
are reduced to simplicity as a guiding suggestion and 
Latin Cross , frequently used 
without bases. A simple design 
appropriate as a central monume?it 
or at an individual grave. 
Statue monument. Statuary 
should not be used unless it is the 
vjork of an artist. There is much 
itiferior statuary in our cemeteries. 
