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PARK AND CEME-TERY 
THe FranKlin (Pa.) Cemetery-' 
As the accompanying views indicate, the Franklin 
(Pa.) Cemetery is an unnsnally attractive example of 
the smaller burial grounds of the United States. It 
contains thirty acres, and some 2,000 interments have 
been made since the first, which occurred Nov. 22, 
1871. It occupies a naturally pleasing site, and year 
by year is coming to be conducted more nearly in ac- 
cordance with advanced ideas concerning what is 
seemly, appropriate and beautiful in cemeteries as 
exemplified by the so-called lawn-plan treatment of 
such grounds. 
There are about 850 lot owners, who control its 
appreciated and adopted by a management which has 
already realized the necessity for and has established 
a perpetual care fund. 
The Franklin company contemplates building a new 
entrance and chapel during the coming vear, and 
contracts are understood to have been let for quite 
extensive improvements by two prominent lot own- 
ers, Gen. Charles Miller and Hon. Joseph C. Sibley. 
Referring to the photographs that have been kindly 
made and sent by Air. C. D. Phipps, who has recently 
been elected superintendent for the nineteenth consecu- 
tive time, one shows a general view in Franklin Cem- 
FRANKLIN 
CEMETERY. 
SUPERINTENDENT'S 
RESIDENCE, 
A (iroup (jf Hydraiig-eas. A View of the Lawn. 
VIEWS IN FRANKLIN CEMETERY, FRANKLIN, PA. 
management through a board of directors elected 
annually. Mounds are not yet abolished, and there 
are no restrictions regarding planting on lots, the 
height, character and artistic merit of monuments, or 
of other stone work, but probably the grounds and 
methods will be brought down to date in these par- 
ticulars as the more progressive and cultivated lot 
owners realize the beauty, practical advantage and 
economy of a smooth, lawn-like expanse ; well placed 
instead of indiscriminately scattered plantations of 
trees, shrubs and perennials ; markers and corner 
posts flush with the ground ; a total absence of foot 
stones, and other stone work as simple, low and un- 
obtrusive as possible unless it is so good artistically 
that it adds to the beauty and the interest of the entire 
inclosure. These features are quite certain to be 
etery with an extensive and effective display of hardy 
Hydrangeas (Hydrangea paniculata grandiflora) in 
flower. The specimen plant in the middle of the fore- 
ground proves how much better it is to let this shrub 
branch low than it is to lop off its graceful lower 
branches. It may be noted that the lowest branches 
bear blossoms, and if, as is greatly to be preferred, 
the plants are allowed to branch quite to the ground, 
the effect is still better at flowering time when the 
entire shrub assumes the pleasant guise of a mound of 
bloom from the top to the grass line — indeed, it often 
trails its sweeping branches like a billowy gown 
freighted with gracious bloom. When rightly placed 
and properly grown, the Hydrangea makes one of 
the best cemetery shrubs where water is available. 
Another scene presents a very homelike view of the 
