The railroad and the steamer, that every day bear home the proprietors to their comfort and luxury, should also, when this life is departed, be the medium to carry their remains to some rest less in contrast with the beauties they have enjoyed while living.

The newer portions of the country have less reason to feel ashamed of their efforts in this matter than the older States, where everything but a wrong spirit in the people seems propitious for tasteful and fitting attention to the dead; but while the latter hare better material in their more picturesque and varied surface, so frequently coursed by bright little streams, the former are showing the most spirit in the selection and subsequent care of their smaller cemeteries. This should not be. All over the country pleasant burial-places should show that the spirit that conceived and so elaborately carried out the idea of Greenwood, Mount Auburn, and Laurel Hill, may be extended to the suburbs of all our villages, and be profitably appropriated by all thriving farming communities away from the towns; - not the extravagance and childish display which so frequently mar the beauty of those cemeteries, but the much that is refined and appropriate in them, - the fine native trees so judiciously preserved; the natural effect of variety of trees gracefully arranged; and - what these noted spots have not had sufficiently in view - a monumental architecture less pretending, showing more feeling, and in better, keeping with the spirit of the spot May I suggest, without incurring the imputation of want of due respect, that black is a hideous accessory in cemeteries? There is enough to remind us of sombre mortality without any such black and gloomy reminder as the iron inclosures that so frequently mark out individual rights.

Where all is carefully guarded, there can be no use for such fences, Cheerfulness and warmth should be constantly in view; there is no want of respectful dignity in either. Anybody but a misanthrope would choose the living beauties of green trees and bright flowers to cheer the place of his rest If any barrier may be used to mark lot-boundaries, it should be some plant of modest growth, or one easily controlled by the use of the pruning-knife. Most hedge plants grow too large and rank, and unless cut very close, would soon altogether hide all modest plants within. Something smaller - as the Burgundy Rose, or the Box - is more appropriate.

The error of most private grounds - crowded planting - extends to the cemetery. Variety of anything of the tree kind is quite out of the question in the usually small lots. When the spirit of tree-planting seizes one in the first genial days of spring, he is tempted to anticipate time's rapid progress by a very profuse use of trees; and where there is scarcely room for one well developed tree, half a dozen or more uncongenial striplings gratify the planter's present eye at a sacrifice of all future good effect Better prepare the ground well for one good tree, and make that show how much luxuriance and beauty may be attained. Almost any of the forest trees may be used successfully in the cemetery. They should always be taken from open ground in the field, hedgerow, or nursery; never from close woods. If the ground selected be so fortunate as to have thrifty second-growth young Hickories, it has what can not easily be got by transplanting. If Nature has favored it with but few specimens, they should be judiciously preserved; for there is no tree of equal beauty more difficult to remove. But the same characteristic that produces the difficulty, is a marked virtue for cemetery adornment which renders it doubly valuable.

Its long tap root, that finds its way into the earth, supplies, in the driest seasons, sufficient moisture to preserve an unfading foliage; while the absence of lateral roots near the surface allows no obstruction to roots of grass. The smooth clipped turf may grow as thriftily next the body of the tree as away from it No roots, either, to be molested by the sexton's spade. A beautiful effect may be produced by planting handsome vines, to climb the trunks of the trees. The climbing Roses, which have very greedy roots, would grow nearly as well a by the side of a Hickory, if the ground was made rich, as in the open ground; while if planted by the side of an Elm, it would find its long horizontal roots quite in the way. I do not speak of the Hickory to. the exclusion of others, but only as a very common undomesticated tree, and too little valued as an ornamental shade. The greater variety of really good trees a cemetery can have, the better. The Elm is a more graceful as well as a more majestic tree. The peculiar green of the White Ash upon its well rounded head gives variety of foliage.

The Oak family have an imposing and characteristic dignity; and there is a long list of other good trees, each having its merit There are the trees of the continual green; and there are those, too, that, destined to part with it, assume the not less beautiful and appropriate hues in which advancing autumn never fails to clothe them. There is a higher beauty, even, in the soft and richly blended, ever-varying tints of the later year, than in the more even verdure of June. Hence the merit of that large class of trees that so persistently defy the frosts. Those common trees, the Dogwood and the Sassafras, then have beauty enough to win that attention that their earlier modesty could not The beautiful Virginia Creeper, which possesses among vines this autumn glory in a marked degree, might be made to atone somewhat for the want of it in the suddenly denuded Hickory.

As it is almost always desirable to select ground at least partially covered with natural forest, a matter of next importance is a judicious selection of Grasses. In our own very prettily wooded cemetery, the result of much labor in seeding under the young second-growth trees has been discouraging, and only from ignorance of the fact that only a few domesticated Grasses thrive under trees. The more generally used are the least suitable - such as Timothy and Red Glover. Orchard Grass is far better.

But I will not prolong what was only commenced as a reminder of the attention due to what should be a leading matter connected with horticultural improvement For lack of the well beautified public grounds that every town should have, our cemeteries may be made delightful places of resort for all citizens who choose to pass a pleasant and quiet hour away from care and confinement Almost every village may find some wild spot capable of ready adaptation to such use. If swamp or rock does not make too large a portion, the wilder, the better. In cemeteries, as in private grounds, forest trees are quite the most effective and economical form of embellishment.