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stones in many interesting ways. Another 
influence that is going to develop some new 
and decorative treatments in lettering and 
tracing is the new sand-blast method of 
cutting letters and decorations that is be- 
ing widely installed in both retail and 
wholesale monument plants. Xew styles of 
lettering and decoration are already being 
developed for this machine, and its many 
possibilities have hardly begun to be re- 
alized. The treatment of stone surfaces 
by modern machinery and new applications 
of decorative art is going to bring into 
monumental architecture many new effects 
in decoration and design. 
INTERESTING LANDSCAPE WORK AT SWAN POINT 
RUSTIC WALK TO WOODED RIDGE LOTS IN SWAN POINT CEMETERY, PROYMDENCE, R. I. 
Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, R. 
I., has some most interesting and distinct- 
ive landscape features, and improvements 
during the past year have further devel- 
oped some of the natural advantages of 
these fine grounds. 
Perhaps the most interesting develop- 
ment in the old part of the cemetery has 
resulted from the sale of two lots on the 
wooded ridge near the northeast corner 
overlooking the river. This ridge, with its 
thick growth of large native trees — aug- 
mented from time to time in the past by 
the planting of rhododendrons, laurels and 
azaleas — is a spot of unusual natural beauty. 
It is a great satisfaction to the directors 
that in selling burial lots on this ridge it 
has been possible to so plan them — and the 
approaches to them — as to preserve this 
beauty in its entirety. The portions of the 
lots reserved for burial are near the top of 
the ridge, and are reached by rustic steps 
which wind among the trees and are ren- 
dered inconspicuous by the shrubbery. Our 
illustration shows a view of these rustic 
steps. I.arge quantities of sand were re- 
moved from the crest of the ridge, and re- 
placed by loam, and over four hundred 
vines and plants were set out there. 
During the year the cemetery has ac- 
quired title to some eighty-seven hundred 
square feet of land in two groups near the 
old entrance, which was below grade and 
unimproved. This land has now been 
graded, and a plantation of shrubs has 
been so located thereon as to serve as a 
background for most of the lots in these 
groups. Some of these lots have already 
been resold. 
Further improvement in the old part of 
the cemetery was secured by the removal 
of a high curbing from lot No. 3, group 
No. 284, and by the regrading of this lot 
to conform to its surroundings. The di- 
rectors hope that other owners of curbed 
lots will incline to permit the removal of 
such curbing, thus improving the appear- 
ance of their lots as well as of the ceme- 
tery as a whole. 
In the portion of the cemetery lying 
west of the Old .Swan Point road the w’ork 
of development has progressed at a rapid 
rate. .A. group northeast of the office 
building, containing sixty-five thousand five 
hundred square feet, has been seeded, 
planted and platted, and is now ready to 
sell for burial lots. Four plantations, con- 
sisting of about a hundred large ever- 
greens, have been made in this group. 
The work on two other large groups in 
this section has been carried nearly to com- 
pletion, although the lots are not yet in 
condition to sell. In connection with this 
work nine large blue spruce trees have been 
set out, as well as five liquidambar trees. 
One of the groups has been given a bor- 
der of thirty ginkgo trees, and another a 
border of hornbeam trees, while maple 
trees line the avenue leading from this 
section to the office. 
The roadways contiguous to these groups 
have been subgraded, and over fourteen 
hundred linear feet of sewer built in addi- 
tion to the necessary catch-basins, man- 
holes, etc. Enough gravel was obtained 
in this grading to resurface over five thou- 
sand linear feet of avenues, while the re- 
mainder of the sur[)lus material was used 
in filling the low land south of the office. 
In addition to the planting already men- 
tioned, more than fifty pine trees and two 
hundred and fifty shrubs and vines liave 
been set out along the north wall near the 
.Alfred .Stone roa<l, and seventy-five large 
spruce and hemlock trees have I)ecn plant- 
ed as a screen for the stone-crusher build- 
ings. , 
