UTILISATION OF CEMETERIES.

Evening Star, Issue 2913, 20 June 1872, Page 3

UTILISATION OF CEMETERIES.

Some one, through the columns of the Auckland papers, has b en recommending the utilisation of the cemeteries by converting them into orchards, which would serve the double purpose of covering the last resting-place of mortality with luxuriant foliage, and converting the liberated elements of the “human form divine” into well-flavored ribston pippins or magnnm bonum plums. The proposal (says the Wellington Independent) has been attacked on account of its being “ utterly devoid of sentiment,” but we are rather inclined to congratulate the author upon his having discovered a really new sensation in allying poetry with the coldest form of practical prose. There is something unique in the idea that one can every autumn revive one’s reminiscences of by-gone affections through the luscious medium of the dessert. “Try this, my dear, it grew exactly over my dear departed would be art excellent test of the value the condolences which widow's teeeive at the lips of their female acquaintances. Aud one can imagine some love lorn swain whom death had deprived of his beloved, investing all his spare pocket-money in the fruit of all the trees that o’c-rshadovved her mortal remains, and regaling himself therewith in a spirit of ecstacy. But the weak point is that those unscrupulous fruiterers would be sure to impose upon people, and no end of awkward complications might arise. Young ladies of a sentimental turn of mind might, for instance, be apt to be deluded into the idea that they were crushing a delicious peach, warranted a real “ Adolphus” whereas it might be the essence of that horrible Tomkins, who drowned himself in the water-butt last year. We are afraid this psychopomonolegy will not do.