And each of those specimens are marked with the English and Latin names. It's like a
walk thru and arboretum except your among Longfellow, Julian Ward Howe, countless Cabots and Lowells and Mary Baker Eddy. Mount Auburn Cemetery. If you can't get to the Boston area, Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn is similar. It dates from a few years after Mount Auburn. There among its foliage you'll find the graves of Leonard Bernstein, Elias Howe, Lola Montez, and a lot more famous folk than in Mount Auburn.
My family is interred in the low rent district: The Cambridge City Cemetery. The plot was bought about 100 years ago when my mother's youngest sister died as a child in the Spanish Flu epidemic in 1918. Most of the plots nearby were sold at the same time and for the same reason. To wander among them today you can infer from the tombstones the terror that went on then. Mother and child dead within a year. Husband and wife the same. When I visited the cemetery just before the holidays in 2008, the cemetery was strewn with Red Sox caps, newspapers and other memorabilia. Back in 1990, just before he died, my father had reminded my that he was 5 when the Sox last won inn 1918. In case you're wondering, Henry and William James and William Dean Howells share space with my family.