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inating mistakes, misunderstandings, and 
confusion. 
Frederick Green, 
Supt., Lake View Cemetery. 
Cleveland, O. 
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I think it equally as important to have 
good, substantial stone corner posts in a 
modern cemetery as in a rural graveyard. 
In Crown Hill Cemetery the rules require 
all lots to be marked with stone posts the 
size 6x6x24 inches. These posts identify 
the lot at once by having the name of the 
owner, the number of lot and the section 
cut in plain letters. We find them equally 
as useful in summer as in winter. All 
corner posts are set flush with the sur- 
face, do not show except when you are 
directly over them, and they do not in any 
way interfere with labor. 
John J. Stephens, 
Supt. Crown Hill Cemetery. 
Indianapolis, Ind. 
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Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D. C., 
prohibts the erection of any marker except 
the one originally placed there by the Cem- 
etery. Boundary markers should not be 
higher than the level of the ground. I am sure 
you will not find any in any modern ceme- 
tery above that level. In the older part of 
the cemetery we allow markers 3 inches 
high, but in all our new sections they must 
be on the level of the ground. The high 
markers are a great drawback to the mow- 
ers ; time is lost trying to cut around them ; 
they are unsightly and of no use. The per- 
fectly level greensward is the prettiest and 
the easiest to keep clean and in order. In 
my observation of the modern and up to 
date cemeteries I have yet to see a marker 
above the ground. 
R. D. Howell, 
Treasurer Rock Creek Cemetery. 
Washington, D. C. 
Salary of Superintendent. 
Replying to a recent inquiry in “Asked 
and Answered” as to what might be a 
proper salary for a superintendent of a 
new cemetery of about 125 acres in a city 
of about 25.CC0 population. You no doubt 
are fully aware of the fact that the main 
part of a cemetery is the landscape gar- 
dening. If you have a man in view who is 
competent of working out all of the details 
in connection with landscape gardening, 
also to properly handle the help, keeping 
account of the finance part of the work — 
in fact, acting for both superintendent and 
secretary, I would say that such a man 
would be worth not less than $100 per 
month, with free house rent ; however, if 
he is only an overseer and must depend 
upon some one for planning and suggest- 
ing, I would say one-half of that salary 
would be ample. 
Thos. Joannes, 
President Woodlawn Cemetery. 
Green Bay, Wis. 
Combining Entrance Gates and 
Buildings. 
We are about to put up new gates and 
building in front of our cemetery, all in 
one building, the arch in the middle, office 
on one side, waiting room and toilets on 
the other, and up above, six living rooms — - 
to cost about $8,000. Could you tell us 
where there is such a building, so we can 
write to them for particulars? — D. C., Neb. 
While we do not know of any cemetery 
that has exactly the same layout as this, 
the following have entrances corresponding 
more or less closely to your proposition, 
that is, they combine the buildings with the 
gates in one way or another : Cave Hill 
Cemetery, Louisville, Ky. ; Cypress Lawn 
Cemetery, San Francisco, Cal. ; Fairmount 
Cemetery, Denver, Colo. ; Wvuka Ceme- 
tery, Lincoln, Neb. 
Auto Trucks in Cemeteries. 
Editor Asked and Answered : I should 
be pleased to know something in regard to 
the use of an auto truck in a cemetery. I 
should like to hear from any of the super- 
intendents who are using them in place of 
horses. Are they being used with success, 
and what makes are they using, and also 
how heavy, and whether horses can be dis- 
pensed with when a truck is used. — T. W., 
Mich. 
Royal Palm Nurseries, of Oneco, Fla., 
have issued a very handsomely illustrated 
catalog for 1916 which contains a long list 
of plants, trees, etc., especially adapted to 
climatic conditions of the South. Some of 
their specialties are: Tropical fruit plants 
and trees, semi-tropical and temperate fruit 
trees and plants ; economical, medicinal and 
useful trees and plants ; bamboos and 
grasses; aquatics, conifers, palms and 
cycads ; ferns and selaginellas ; foliage and 
decorative plants ; tropical flowering plants 
and shrubs ; hardy and half-hardy flower- 
ing plants and shrubs; tropical and sub- 
tropical vines and creepers ; hardy and 
half-hardy vines and creepers ; tuberous, 
bulbous anld herbaceous plants ; tropical 
shade trees; hardy and half-hardy shade 
trees, and succulents and epiphytes. 
Agitation for more parks and play- 
grounds for the south part of the city of 
South Bend, Ind., has been spreading 
throughout the Seventh Ward and it was 
taken up for discussion at a meeting of 
the Oliver Civic Club recently. G. F. Has- 
langer, president of the Elder Club, gave 
a short talk at the Oliver meeting, in 
which he spoke about the need for more 
playgrounds in that district and the at- 
tempt of the Park Board to put in a golf 
The best discussion of using auto trucks 
in the cemetery is to be found in a paper 
on this subject presented by Edward G. 
Carter, Superintendent of Oakwood Ceme- 
tery, Chicago, before the 1911 convention 
of the Association of American Cemetery 
Superintendents, held at Philadelphia, and 
printed in the proceedings of this conven- 
tion. We presume that you saw the article 
in the December issue of Park and Cem- 
etery, on “The Use of Motor Buses in 
Cemeteries.” 
Receiving Vault Beneath Chapel. 
In the “Asked and Answered” column 
of your December issue, “A. P. B.” in- 
quired if instances can be given of a re- 
ceiving vault being placed below a cemetery 
chapel. I may say that that is the case in 
this cemetery and we do not find it objec- 
tionable in any way. In this climate it is 
impossible to prepare graves as they are 
required during the winter months, the 
ground being frozen to a depth of 5 or 6 
feet at this time of the year. It is cus- 
tomary, therefore, for the services to be 
held in the chapel and the coffins lowered 
into the vault in the same manner that they 
would be into the grave. 
Wm. R. Reader, 
Parks and Cemetery Supt. 
Calgary, Canada. 
course at Studebaker Park over the wishes 
of the people. 
“The Prairie Spirit in Landscape Gar- 
dening,” issued by the Lhiiversity of Illi- 
nois, is a 36-page circular containing 100 
illustrations. It is uniform with “The Il- 
linois Way of Beautifying the Farm” (Cir- 
cular 170), the page being 9)4x12 inches. 
The aim of “The Prairie Spirit” is to show 
“what the people of Illinois have done and 
can do toward designing and planting pub- 
lic and private grounds for efficiency and 
beauty.” Contents: Chapter 1, The Prai- 
rie Style of Landscape Gardening; chap- 
ter 2, Everyone Can Apply the Principle 
of Conservation ; chapter 3, A Free Res- 
toration of Ancient Illinois ; chapter 4, 
Restoration Applied to Farmstead and City 
Lot ; chapter 5, Restoring the Romantic 
Types of Illinois Scenery; draper 6, Can 
the Prairie be Restored ; chapter 7, Every- 
one Can Apply the Principle of Repetition ; 
chapter 8, Adapting the Prairie Style to 
Other Kinds of Scenery; chapter 9, Ma- 
terials Used in the Prairie Style; chapter 
10, Some Uses for Illinois Materials; 
chapter 11, Literature of the Prairie Style 
of Landscape Gardening ; chapter 12, The 
Showiest Plants in the World. The first 
eleven chapters are devoted to various 
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