I have read, with deep regret, of the death of Mr. Adolph Strauch, of Cincinnati Garden, and Superintendent of the Spring Grove Cemetery since 1854, and to whose excellent taste and ski 1 its beauty, so generally recognized, is undoubtedly due. But I was much surprised to read in the report of the cemetery committee, upon his decease, that " Mr. Strauch originated the landscape lawn system for cemeteries, gradually developed its important details, and demonstrated its superiority." There could not possibly be a greater error, and no greater injustice done to the memory of one who was not only the first, but who has done more for landscape improvement, the advancement of arboriculture, or the progress of rural adornment than all others.

I scarcely need refer to the late J. C. Louden, who died long before the Spring Grove Cemetery was established, and more than ten years before Mr. Strauch took charge of the grounds. Two years before his death, in 1842, he described the '"Principles of Landscape Gardening and of Landscape Architecture, applied to the laying out of public cemeteries," (Gard. Mag. Vol. 19, p. 93) and even before that the South Garden Metropolitan Cemetery had laid out their grounds in landscape style, a fine representation of which, in a lithographic plate, may be found in the same volume, p. 402.

Mr. Straach is undoubtedly entitled to all the praise that the committee (of which our old friend, Mr. Probasco, is chairman) for what he did to give Spring Grove Cemetery its charming character. He was no originator of the system, but had the good judgment to accept of what had already been done, and do as much as he could to perfect what those who did originate it endeavored to accomplish.