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The Monticello Hotel has been selected 
as headquarters and offers rates on the 
European plan as follows ; Single room 
without bath, $1.50 per day and up; double 
room without bath, $2.50 per day and up ; 
single room with private bath, $2.50 per 
day and up ; double room with private bath, 
$4 per day and up. 
DEVELOPMENT of 
We used to sing of climbing “Pisgah’s 
hoary heights to view the landscape o’er,” 
but now the genial president of Greenwood 
Cemetery, Knoxville, Tenn., has opened up 
a 5 per cent grade to the top of his moun- 
tain and invites all of those living in Knox- 
ville to come and climb and view the land- 
scape and adore. 
Within the 150-acre tract of land known 
in Knoxville as “Beautiful Greenwood'- is 
a mountain on a small scale, being only a 
hill if it sat upon a plain; but being upon 
the high land adjoining Knoxville it is 
really a mountain, for from its summit 
one can see over miles and miles of moun- 
tainous country and can see land in five 
states. 
The readers of P.\rk .\nd Cemetery and 
I.ANDS c.'^PE G.\rdening have read an occa- 
sional article about Greenwood Cemetery, 
“the IModern Cemetery of the South.” 
Platted, then replatted and extended, and 
re-extended. Greenwood has grown from a 
rural cemetery to a modern park-like burial 
place, where the beauty of landscape de- 
velopment fits in so uniquely with nature’s 
own work. Here trees and shrubs and 
flowers, with lakes and lakelets glimmer- 
ing among the varied landscape features, 
make Greenwood a fit place for the quiet 
retreat for those who wish to hear the 
melody of the Southern mockingbird and 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Printing Convention Papers. 
Editor Park and Cemetery ; I received 
word a short time ago from our worthy 
secretary of the Association of American 
Cemetery Superintendents, Superintendent 
Bellett Lawson, Jr., regarding “the printing 
of the best papers of previous years in 
booklet form.” 
revel in the dreams of days gone by, when 
“God’s out-of-doors” was not spoiled by 
man’s destroying hand. 
In 1905 the old plan of Greenwood was 
revised by Sid J. Hare, of Hare & Hare, 
landscape architects, Kansas City, Mo. 
Dr. R. X. Kesterson, the president, treas- 
urer and manager of Greenwood, is a 
prominent dentist of Knoxville. His many 
years of membership in the American As- 
sociation of Cemetery Superintendents, of 
which he is now vice-president, enables him 
to see quickly where changes can be made 
that will add beauty and convenience to his 
ground. Aided by his landscape architects 
he is now adding new land, some twenty 
acres or more, and is replatting parts of 
the old, so that the new can be joined to 
the old. Greenwood now covers 150 acres. 
A perpetual care fund is set aside, being 
25 per cent of the funds received for the 
sale of lots, to assure the lot owners and 
prospective lot owners that Greenwood will 
continue beautiful after they are gone. The 
perpetual care fund now amounts to $12,650. 
Every portion of the ground that is not 
strictly choice for burial purposes is being 
developed into parked areas, and these 
among the burial sections add features that 
are intended to take away the pangs of 
sorrow. One can hardly recall the scenes 
of bygone days as they gaze upon the new; 
In the event of not 'enough subscriptions 
being guaranteed to insure the printing of 
same, I would suggest that forty members 
of the association pledge themselves to 
raise the required amount. I will head the 
list with $5. Chas. T. G. Flaherty, 
Supt., St. Agnes Cemetery. 
Albany, N. Y. 
and that which we know today will give 
way to beauty and utility that is yet to 
come to Greenwood. 
Plans are now under way to place a large 
conservatory in Greenwood, also an office, 
shelters and public conveniences. A new 
general plan is no.w being made by Hare 
& Hare, of Kansas City, Mo., to include 
new acquisitions of land and plans for de- 
velopment of same. The office at the main 
entrance will be just back of the pergola 
that stands between the two drive entrances. 
Two hundred feet back of the office and 
just north of a water lily lake will be the 
conservatory, located where it is convenient 
to the older portion of the burial ground 
and yet adjoining the new. 
The soil is a dark clay and the topog- 
raphy is such as to make perfect drainage 
conditions. The general landscape effect of 
cemetery planting has been so fully de- 
scribed and so beautifully illustrated that 
it is hardly necessary to go into details of 
the work. The accompanying views show 
the general character of the work and 
speak for themselves. The open lawn areas, 
border planting and monumental screens 
are features of the handling of plants. 
The old entrance to Greenwood has been 
rebuilt this last year with Tennessee mar- 
ble columns and iron gates. This is the 
entrance used by all funerals coming from 
the country to the east. The main entrance 
has been pictured in Park and Cemetery 
AND Landscape Gardening and needs no 
more than a picture to show what has been 
accomplished here with the beautiful Ten- 
nessee marble in columns, piers and per- 
gola. 
There is a temporary chapel building on 
the grounds and a fine marble receiving 
vault built by day labor. 
The personnel of the Greenwood direct- 
ors shows Greenwood to be one of the 
strongest corporations in the South. Its 
directorship is composed of the foremost 
business men of Knoxville. 
GLIMPSE OP GREENWOOD ENTRANCE. 
GARDEN OP FLOWERS FROM PA.MOUS PLACES, GREENWOOD CEMETERY. 
KNOXVILLE’S MODERN CEMETERY 
