6 
PARK AND CEMETERY 
that in some cases the owner of a lot was often 
bought out that planting might be made. 
The patrons of Swan Point still cling to copings 
and stone fences about lots. Their baneful effects 
are ingeniously modified by the free use of Euonymus 
imOKING DOWN THE KAVINE. 
radicans and Boston Ivy. The Euonymus thrives 
nowhere better than here, and throws over the cold 
stone a wondrous beauty. It is planted thickly along 
the coping and climbs in its characteristic fashion 
upon it. Instead of a hard barrier of cold monotony, 
intricacy and a quiet color sot- 
tens and embellishes the lot. 
This is perhaps the best example 
of turning evil into good to be 
found at Swan Point. 
Perhaps as pleasant a charac- 
ter as the cemetery boasts is the 
manner in which roads and paths 
are marked. This operation 
usually results in ugliness, but 
here a genuinely attractive 
group results. Iron frames 
tastefully constructed and mod- 
estly lettered served as supports 
of Nistaria, which are enforced 
by Rosa setigera and Yucca fila- 
mentora. They serve both as 
guides and as corner groups. 
Most striking is the boulder 
wall, made up of boulders weigh- 
ing many tons. The land where 
the cemetery is was filled with these. Sensible use was 
made by piling them into a boundary wall. As long 
as the individuality of each stone is merged in the 
general mass of the wall, the effect is excellent. The 
wall is partly covered with vines, chiefly Ampelopsis 
Engelmanni and Boston Ivy. It is noteworthy that 
only those plants with the finest leaves can be brought 
near the wall without disastrous results in effect. 
The wall is mainly along the upper side of a new 
addition to the cemetery, facing a new boulevard. A 
strip of planting between the 
sidewalk at the foot of the wall 
and the roadway is well planted 
with some of the finer plants 
and deserves much praise. The 
wall has purposely been made 
large and high, and its proximity 
planted with care that no un- 
pleasant graveyard association^ 
may be intruded upon the pas- 
sers-by. The main feature of 
the wall is the entrance gate, 
made up of some of the largest 
boulders. It was a difficult piece 
of work. The gate is in form a 
common entrance gate of colos- 
sal proportions, the sides as one 
enters being of receding convex 
arcs, connected by a straight 
line of wall and sliding 
gates. 
The ravine must be mentioned. This was a gravel 
liole enlarging an old ravine. The opportunity was 
seized to make it a sheltered shrub-garden. Look^’ng 
down from above, one catches a glimmer of watei 
through an opening in the woods. The eye is carried 
HOOKING UP THE RAVINE. 
to this view by the sides of the ravine and ovei- 
hanging trees adorned with the richness of some ol 
the choicer shrubs that America knows. Here art 
the Cendromede floribunda, the Daphne Cneoruiti 
and the Ericas, with all the better plants of their class. 
