PARK AND CEMETERY 
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PERKINS MEMORIAL CHAPEL, BLOSSOM HILL CEM- 
ETERY, CONCORD, N. H. 
The Perkins Memorial Chapel, Blossom Hill Cem- 
etery, Concord, N. H., is a handsomely appointed 
PERKINS MEMORIAL CHAPEL, BLOSSOM HILL CEME- 
TERY, CONCORD, N. H. 
structure recently presented to the cemetery by Miss 
Susan G. Perkins as a memorial to her father’s fam- 
ily. 
It is 40 x 45 feet exterior dimensions, built of rock- 
faced Concord granite, with cut stone trimmings, and 
slated with Vermont red slate. 
In the wing, where the small door is seen, is the 
offce of Superintendent Edward S. Moulton, and in the 
basement, which is cemented, is the toilet and furnace. 
The interior is finished in cypress with the floor of 
Georgia pine, and will seat about 100 people. The 
seats are in the form of chairs arranged in groups of 
three. 
The structure cost about $7,000, and was designed 
by Architect M. F. Oliver, of Concord. 
GARDEN PLANTS— THEIR GEOGRAPHY— CVIII. 
ALISMALES. 
The Alisma, Potamogeton and Zostera Alliance. 
This group is composed almost entirely of bog-plants 
and aquatics, and with a variety of names, is still 
sometimes included under Ventenant’-s “Fluviales.” 
Bentham and Hooker term them Apocarpae and place 
the Hydrocharideae elsewhere. I would rather see them 
in this group, instinctively, rather than for scientific 
reasons. Instinctively, too, I fancy the whole group, 
with their often perfect flowers, might easily have a 
SAGITTARIA VARIABILIS SAGITTARIA VARIABILIS 
I. ATIFOLIA FL. PLENO. 
better place in a system than between Aroids and 
Sedges. But enough of that, the object here is to hint 
at the adaptability of a select few to the embellishment 
and interest of a garden. 
The botanists, or at least, some of them, include 
about 12 tribes, 45 genera, and 231 species, many of 
which are interesting to them alone. My conception of 
a garden is that it should chiefly be furnished with 
plants whose beauties may be recognized by the naked 
eye. People can’t tote microscopes everywhere. But 
with this limitation, there is no need of a garden hotch- 
potch, for if anyone has read these papers with atten- 
tion they will have found ample material in most 
groups to furnish gardens with an abundance of well 
distributed form and color. 
I have hinted before that a selection of endogens 
might well be used to embellish the pine tribes. In 
