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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
BIRMINGHAM’S MODERN LAWN PLAN CEMETERY 
Elmwood Cemetery, Birmingham, Ala., is 
one of the most beautiful and carefully 
managed burial grounds in the South, and 
has in recent years made rapid strides in 
applying modern methods of lawn plan de- 
velopment. 
The views of the grounds illustrated here 
speak for themselves in evidence of the 
striking results that have been achieved in 
securing beautiful open lawn effects, tree 
and shrubbery growth and in the setting of 
the monuments which show an unusually 
high average of design. 
Elmwood includes 240 acres of moder- 
ately rolling ground that was originally 
heavily wooded. Drainage facilities are 
splendid and the soil is a red clay, strongly 
impregnated with iron and lime. 
Some of the principal trees and shrubs 
include: Water oak, sycamore, pine, elms, 
Norway maple, hickory, magnolia, gar- 
denias, Euonymus, Japonicus, retinispo- 
ras, juniperus. Thuya, hydrangeas wei- 
gelas, forsythias, roses, etc. 
I'he grounds were planned by Hare & 
Hare, of Kansas City, AIo. 
.A.bout eighty acres of the grounds are in 
use, and 33 per cent of all territory is re- 
served for roads, walks and ornamental 
purposes. The Elmwood Cemetery Corpo- 
ration was organized as a stock company 
in 1900 and the cemetery now has a total 
of about 4,800 interments, with a yearly av- 
erage of about 400. 
All lots are under perpetual care and 
prices vary from 50 cents to $2.50 a foot. 
with single graves at $12 each. Ten per 
cent of the price of all ground sold is set 
aside for the perpetual care fund. 
The chapel and administration building 
is a temporary structure erected at a cost 
of $5,000. A new and handsome adminis- 
tration building is to be built. The ceme- 
ter}' maintains a greenhouse plant erected 
at a cost of $12,000. A very pretty little 
pergola of wood with a concrete foundation 
has recently been erected at a cost of only 
about $100. Twenty acres in a new' section 
have been developed and fifteen acres of 
Bermuda grass lawn started in addition to 
planting several hundred trees and shrubs. 
Other recent improvements include the lay- 
ing of 10,000 feet of cement gutters and 
the building of 2,000 feet of cement post 
fence and privet hedge. 
The view showing the Bradley and Will- 
iam Bibb Leedy monuments, illustrated 
here, shows one of the best settings for 
two fine monuments in the cemetery. The 
monuments are of the massive sarcophagus 
type, with enough of variety to escape 
monotony and enough of similarity to har- 
monize. The heavy growth of hickory in 
the background, the shrubbery that has 
been planted to soften the corners and base 
lines of the monuments, and the perfect 
lawn, combine to form a cemetery picture 
of rare beauty. The Leedy memorial is 
10-0x5-5x1-4 at base with a die 7-9x3-3.x 
4-8, and the monument stands 6-0 high. 
The Bradley is 8 feet at the base and 5-6 
high. Both of these memorials are of 
Barre granite and were manufactured and 
erected by McDonnell & Sons, of Buffalo, 
N. Y., and Barre, Vt. 
The Roberts memorial was designed by 
Gaylor & Humphrey, architects, of New 
York,' and is executed in Tennessee mar- 
ble. It is a handsomely carved classic 
memorial, and an effort has been made to 
surround it with formal planting that 
would harmonize w'ith the architecture of 
OFFICE AND CHAPEL AT ENTRANCE TO ELMWOOD; SEEN FROM WITHIN. 
Bed of Conifers Includes Retinospora squarrosa, Juniperus sinensis and Thuya globosa. 
FINE OPEN LAWN OP BERMUDA GRASS IN ELMWOOD. 
MONUMENT WITH FORMAL PLANTING IN ELMWOOD. 
