UTILISATION OF CEMETERIES.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1157, 13 April 1872, Page 2

UTILISATION OF CEMETERIES.

Some one, through the columns of the Auckland papers, has been recommending the utilisation of cemeteries by converting them into orchards, whioh would serve the double purpose of covering the last rest* ing place of mortality with luxuriant foliage, and converting the liberated elements of the "'human form divine" into wellflavbred ribston pippins^ or magnum bonnum .plums. The proposal (says the Wei' lington Independent) has been attacked on account of ite being i§ , 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 perpetually every autumn revive one's reminiscences of bygone affections through the luscious medium of .the dessert. •',' Try this, my dear, it grew exactly: ovejij my dear departed,", would be7an,: test of the value of the condolences which widows receive at the lips of their female acquaintances. And one can'j imagine some love-lorn swain whom death had deprived of his beloved, investing all his, spare pocket-money in ( the fruit of a,ll the trees that o'ershadowed her mortal remains, and regaling herself 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 ari3e. 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; v who drowned himself in the water-butt last year. We are afraid this paychppomonology will not do. ,' V'W- V V; '