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PORTER. 
CLOSE VIEW OF PORTER MONUMENT. 
PORTER LOT, GRACELAND CEMETERY, CHICAGO. 
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practically every lot facing the roadways 
has been individually planted and graded 
to set off the monument, to screen out 
the background or to secure a definite 
landscape effect. A walk down these 
avenues will show a skill in development 
of cemetery landscape pictures and in 
the setting of monuments that is as fine 
as the effects secured in the planning of 
homes on any of our fine residence 
thoroughfares. Mr. O. C. Simonds, the 
landscape architect of this cemetery, has 
been working for years toward the de- 
velopment of the ideal conditions of 
cemetery art suggested above, and the 
results are apparent even to the casual 
observer. 
One of the finest specimens of the 
combination of landscape and monu- 
mental art in a cemetery lot, and one of 
the finest of recent monuments, is to be 
seen in the illustrations of the Porter 
monument and its surroundings in Grace- 
land. The monument is a massive clas- 
sic tablet of imposing size and beauti- 
ful lines. It was designed by Architect 
Charles A. Platt, of New York, and ex- 
ecuted in hone-finished Stony Creek 
granite by Norcross Brothers Co., of 
Worcester, Mass. The entire monument 
above the bottom base is in one piece, 
and it was set by George Archer & Son, 
of Chicago. It is 16 feet by 11-6 at the 
base and the die weighs 33 tons. The treat- 
ment of the lot called for dignity and 
simplicity in the planting. While there 
were attractive lots and monuments in 
the vicinity, a great variety of small 
monuments could be seen in the back- 
ground, as may be noted in one of our 
pictures, calling for a horticultural screen 
to be seen in their place. 
A requirement of the architect of the 
monument was for a semicircular hedge 
back of the monument, and Phelps Wy- 
man, landscape architect, of Minneapo- 
lis, was employed to prepare a platting 
plan. The thorn was chosen, since it 
would reach a height and thickness that 
would be in scale and be adequate as a 
screen and at the same time could be 
clipped. Yet, because its base is some- 
times open, the barberry was planted 
close arond it thickly. The hedge was 
almost the only ornament needed, yet 
since the trees close around the lot were 
some of them ragged, two elms were 
placed symmetrically at the back of the 
lot to form a finer edging for the tree 
mass. 
Similarly, since there was shrubbery 
planting in the vicinity, but not of an 
arrangement to accord with the severity 
of the monument, two large specimen 
Spiraea Van Houttei were placed at the 
sides of the lot. 
A smooth lawn, beautifully graded, 
was the only other ornament, and leads 
naturally and impressively up to the mon- 
ument from the drive. 
Another example of a beautiful mon- 
ument with a well-planned landscape 
setting is the Rudd monument in Mt. 
Greenwood Cemetery, Chicago, which 
stands on the family lot of W. N. Rudd, 
president of this cemetery. Mr. Rudd is 
developing along the main avenue near 
