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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
first seems to depend on mere 
chance. But it is not so, for in 
the long run the skill of the player 
predominates over the casualties of 
the game.” 
Consummate skill in the game of 
life was certainly found in that mar- 
velous orator who knew so well how 
to touch ,the hearts while influenc- 
ing the minds of men. Victor Hugo 
merits his niche in the Pantheon at 
Paris by a lifetime of service to his 
country. No public demonstration 
at the death of a Frenchman ever 
exceeded the spectacle of his fu- 
neral. The exalted and the humble, 
the rich and the poor, alike did him 
honor, for he had possessed a wealth 
of understanding which was ex- 
pressed in his glowing sympathy, 
his tender helpfulness, his judicial 
conscience. 
(To be Continued.) 
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Milton. Mason. Prior. Campbell. Handel. Addison. 
Spencer. Gray. 
POETS' CORNER IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. 
Foliage Masses— MaKing and Maintaining Them. 
By H. A. Caparn. 
Massed shrubbery is one of the principal means of 
getting broad effects. It cannot be completed and the 
effects realized by planning it in the office, nor even by 
planting it in the ground. A great deal of experience 
with shrubberies of my own making and observation 
of those of other people has led to certain general 
conclusions which may be worth printing. 
Before planting shrubberies (or lawns) do not omit 
to cultivate the ground as well and deep as possible. 
A good crop of bushes or grass cannot be raised on 
poor soil any more than another crop. When planted 
the making of the shrubbery is only begun. It is in- 
tended to be of a certain form and texture, to pro- 
duce a certain effect from the salient points of view. 
It is usually desired to be higher on one side than on 
the other, on the back than on the front, and generally 
speaking, that each bush should grow taller than the 
one in front of it, for if it did not, it could not be 
seen ; that is, if the shrubbery is not set where it can be 
looked down upon. Each bush should be a well- 
shaped specimen of its kind, vigorous and individual, 
yet a part of the whole. There must be no gaps or 
untidy places, nothing protruding disproportionately 
from the general expanse. 
To achieve all this, the plantation must be cared for 
as long as it exists. Some plants will grow better 
than they are expected, others not so well. The former 
may have to be pruned, the latter to be coddled or 
replaced with others. If one kind cannot flourish it 
should be replaced with some other that can. It 
should be remembered that pruning does not mean 
slashing or shearing, not the obliteration of the natural 
shape of the plant, but its development. As the plants 
begin to crowd each other they should be thinned out 
until each has nearly room to grow to its full size. 
Very likely the tall-growing things at the hack, the 
MASSED SHRUBBERY. 
pyruses, cercis, fringes, dogwoods, halesias, etc., will 
lag behind the more hasty spiraeas, weigelas and deut- 
zias for a few years so that the foliage mass will be 
out of proportion. But it must not be forgotten that 
the front is to be low and the back high, that the mass 
is to be unified, unbroken and consistent. To get these 
conditions the principal tools required are the spade, 
the knife and intelligence. 
