PARK AND CEMRTERY 
excel in its detail, which has been worked out with 
much care and ingenuity. One must not look too 
far at a glance, but only note the pleasant little ways 
in which disagreeable features are overcome and 
made attractive. It was taken for granted that much 
was lacking in general lines, for that was the way in 
which the cemetery was laid out and what people at 
that time wanted. The best that could be done was 
to carefully work out the problem in small things. 
In order to understand the cemetery best, one 
must look at the individual lot and note how that 
and not the whole landscape has been treated. Be- 
tween lots as they ordinarily stand is often a shrub 
or a small tree, singly or several at intervals, or per- 
haps a small group. The kinds are various. Any 
common cultivated shrub is used. There at the back 
corner of a lot may be a small tree. In front of it a 
little way, a Prunus Pissardi. Toward the front of 
the lot a Philadelphus. Or it may be a Forsythia or 
a Speraea or perhaps a group of Euonymus nanus ; 
sometimes a lilac and sometimes a Yucca filamentora. 
A combination of Forsythia suspensa and Spiraen 
Thunbergu is a favorite one. One sees Retinos 
poras occasionally, but in general the use of conifers 
is avoided. The plants are usually not large growing. 
In working upon so small a scale as the individual 
lot, the effect of a single shrub is striking. Often 
THE MANNER IN WHICH ROADS AND PATHS ARE 
MARKED. 
more would have been too heavy. The planting is 
thin enough so as to have killed the grass. 
Considerable attention is paid to backgrounds of 
shrubbery. This permits a use of Kalmias and Rho- 
dodendrons, which flourish at Swan Point, together 
with our more common shrubbery. Discretion is 
used in placing it. Over there on the dead level, 
where room for lots is in demand, we see few large 
EUONYMUS RADICANS COVERING A DOW STONE FENCE. 
masses. Up on the hillier portions, the brink of the 
hill is occupied, making a background in two direc- 
tions. The shrubbery at the back^of this lot unites 
ill appearance with the native oaks behind it, giving 
the lot a greater air of seclusion. Boundary planting 
also as a background is seen to be turned to good 
advantage. It was noticeable in several cases that 
when a portion of the cemetery w'ould have been bare 
in appearance, a lot or series of lots in conspicuous 
portions is reserved and filled with plants. 
There is a good border about one area separat- 
ing it wholly from the rest of the cemetery. Its coni- 
position is interesting. There are hardy perennials, 
as lilacs. Euphorbia and Asters, and low shrubbery 
with an occasional small tree. Its character is such 
that it does not give the appearance of a belt, which 
it is, but a roadside fringe, and its intricacy and 
brightness softens the glare of the monuments back 
of it. 
Erom the necessity of the case we must happen 
upon a corner lot or a triangle made by the junction 
of roads. This is just the place for planting, ana 
the opportunity has been well used. Sometimes there 
are Cannas and Colens, at others a mass of strong 
shrubbery. In some places particularly adapted a 
group of low plants. This simple strengthening ol 
corners seems to affect the appearance of the ceme- 
tery as much as any other one cause. This fact is 
well appreciated at Swan Point, for it was learned 
