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monuments made it difficult to carry intersecting paths 
across between them, so a plan hardly to be commended 
has been followed, of half burying a number of these, and 
planting bushes in the earth thus thrown about, and 
putting the necessary frames for raising plants in the 
centre. To place the frames against the wall, and make 
a raised path or terrace among the tombs, and not to 
have banked them up with a kind of rockery of broken 
pieces, might have been more fitting. The part of the 
ground which is less crowded is well planted. Birch and 
alder (Alnus cordifolia) are doing well, and a nice clump 
of gorse flourishes. 
One of the best-arranged of these old East End 
graveyards is that of St. George’s-in-the-East, near 
Ratcliffe Highway. It is kept up by the Borough 
of Stepney, having been put in order under the direc¬ 
tion of the rector, Rev. C. H. Turner (now Bishop of 
Islington), at the expense of Mr. A. G. Crowder, in 
1866. The tombstones have for the most part been 
placed against the wall, or left standing if out of the 
way, as in the case of the one to the Marr family, whose 
murder caused horror in 1811. In the centre stands the 
obelisk monument to Mrs. Raine, a benefactress of the 
parish, who died in 1725. The whole of the ground is 
laid out with great taste and simplicity, and is thoroughly 
well cared for. The flowers seem to flourish particularly 
well, and the borders in summer are redolent with the 
scent of old clove carnations, which are actually raised 
and kept from year to year on the premises. A small 
green-house supplies the needs of the flower-beds. The 
superintendence of the garden is left to Miss Kate Hall, 
who takes charge of the Borough of Stepney Museum in 
Whitechapel Road, and also of the charming little 
