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PARK AND CEMBTRRY. 
Memorial Art In tine Modern Cemetery. 
The revolution in the metliods of management and 
tlie improvement of cemeteries brought about by the 
adoption of what is called the lawn plan, or what is 
more properly designated the landscape plan, has been 
a remarkable development, and especially when consid- 
ered in relation to the short time which has elapsed 
since the first efforts in so radical a reform. For anv 
fundamental change in custom and plan of the habit 
of centuries as illustrated in the burial ground can be 
nothing else than radical. It is therefore remarkable 
obvious and discordant his failures, be they great or 
small. 
That there are discordant notes in the harmonies 
of even our finest cemeteries cannot be denied, the re- 
sult of conditions imposed by both the management 
and the lot owners. With the former the question of 
income, and with the latter that of personal rights, 
are largely stumbling blocks at present to the more 
lierfect fruition of the modern in its integrity. 
There are two more important considerations in the 
FIG. 1 — THE Mir.MORE MEMORIAE. D. C. FRENCH, SC. 
Erected in Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, Mass. Its present appearance and surroundings. 
that in so few short years so wonderful a transforma- 
tion even in the larger cemeteries should have taken 
place, and that too with the evident approbation of the 
community. 
And the end is not yet, for the final development 
of the landscape cemetery means perfect harmony in 
all the relations of its parts, necessitated by the fact 
that art, the art of great mother nature, demands that 
her rules be observed, in that any deviation from what 
she has made apparent in her own great order, only 
detracts from the works of man, and renders more 
landscape plan of care and development, upon which 
ma_\- be said to depend the chai^cter and permanent 
beauty of the cemeter_\- — the amount and distribution 
of the planting and the design and disposition of the 
memorials. Expansive lawns, however well kept, pro- 
fusely dotted with monuments of various sizes, with 
little or no shrubbery to break the monotony, is not the 
lawn plan in the true meaning. And, however well 
ordered the grounds, however refined the monuments, 
if the latter be not disposed so as to display appropriate 
surroundings and to harmonize with the landscape ef- 
