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WINTER EFFECTS IN WALNUT HILLS CEM/ 
ETERY, BROOKLINE, MASS< 
Winter ef¥ects in landscape call for plants which 
are agreeable in form and color during the winter 
season and seemingly capable of enduring the win- 
ter’s siege. As a foundation for this, a good, con- 
sistent lay-out of grounds where communication must 
be kept open is perhaps the first necessity. Natural 
rocks of good color boldly exposed, add striking re- 
sults. Rugged-growing deciduous trees and shrubs 
and evergreens form the vegetative elements. Since 
many deciduous shrubs have not much character and 
depend for effect so much upon foliage and flowers, 
eluded nook a mass of rhododendrons half surrounds 
a lot covered with periwinkle supplemented with An- 
dromeda floribunda. Although good, the last com- 
bination is insipid in comparison with the more rug- 
ged beauty of pines, cedars, oaks and rocks. It is in- 
sipid because it suggests home comforts and refined 
surroundings, not a deserted corner. The pines, 
oaks, and cedars are used as border plantations or as 
groups in natural positions either near the boundary 
at the junction of roads, or in positions where a 
change in the character of the ground calls for em- 
phasis. The cemetery is laid out on the lawn plan. 
The landscape in general is cheerful, or would be 
if more adorned in detail, it having a suggestion of 
WINTER EFFECTS, WAI.NUT HIEES CEMETERY, BROOKLINE, MASS. 
only strong-growing shrubs with perhaps high col- 
ored bark like the dogwood are permissible, except 
subordinately. Neither deciduous nor evergreen 
plants except in finer planting are to be much used to 
the exclusion of the other. A happy combination of 
the two, a difficult thing, is better. 
Walnut Hills, Brookline, Mass., illustrates some 
of these points. It is situated in an undulating val- 
ley in a beautiful hilly region abundant in ccnglom- 
erate rock. Boulders and ledges stand out prom- 
inently. Summer may cover them with vines, but in 
winter their strength and boldness respond recipro- 
cally to the season. In connection with the rocks or 
apart by themselves are evergreen and deciduous 
trees, chiefly white pines, cedars and oaks. In a se- 
bareness, the only gloomy objects being the stiff 
stone-yard monuments. Much taste is displayed in 
bringing existing naturalistic rocks into service as 
monuments either by carving a single name upon 
them or by sinking a plate to its level in the rock. 
Good winter effects in general may be created 
by either of the two methods hinted at above, by a 
broad, open, sun-loving and storm-swept landscape 
adorned by deciduous and coniferous trees or in a 
protected nook adorned by finer and smaller ever- 
greens, both coniferous and broad-leaved, where care 
and living presence are suggested. The choice de- 
pends upon location and use, for beauty, after all, is 
much a matter of consistency and fitness. 
A. Phelps Wyman. 
