Hanover Chapel has a burying-ground which is quite unique. A straight avenue of elm trees leads from the entrance-gate to the door of the chapel; and on each side of the gravel walk, which runs down the centre of the avenue, is a narrow margin of smooth highly kept grass. Next, there is on each side a neat low wire fence, beyond which is the burying-ground, the greater part of which is dug and planted with herbaceous plants, interspersed with low trees and flowering shrubs, and divided by walks, in some places straight and in others winding. The whole is interspersed with graves and grave-stones, and as the gates in the wire fence are all kept locked, no person is allowed to walk among the graves who is not admitted by the gardener. Every recent grave is covered with a mound of green turf, kept smooth by clipping or mowing, and all the rest of the ground is kept dug and planted; so that no flowers can be said to be grown on the recent graves, but only beside them. The recent graves are those in which interments have taken place within two or three years; and are always known by being covered with green turf, which is kept fresh by watering, and short and thick by frequent mowing. Nothing that we ever saw in a cemetery or churchyard comes up to the high keeping displayed in this one. The walks and their edges were perfect; the grass every where like velvet; the dug ground as fresh and garden-like as if it had been recently dug and raked; the flowers neatly staked and tied up, where tying was required; and not a single decayed flower or leaf could we observe any where. The boundary walls were covered with ivy and other climbers, and we observed trained on them one or two fig trees and some other plants of the tree kind; but as, in consequence of the wire fence, we could not get into the interior walks, we speak only of what we saw from the avenue.
