The new association was formed in November, 1882, and soon flourished amazingly. By the end of 1895 it had carried through upwards of 320 successful undertakings, had 60 other works on hand, and had made offers and attempts, without success, respecting about 200 schemes. But the indirect work of the Association has also been most valuable; the tone of public opinion on the subject of open spaces has entirely changed during the past twelve years, and this is due, in great measure, to the untiring exertions of the Earl of Meath and his co-workers. New Acts of Parliament, including the Disused Burial-grounds Act, have been passed, useful clauses have been inserted in the Open Spaces Acts, and several Bills threatening open spaces have been opposed and extinguished. The Association has worked with the Commons Preservation and Kyrle Societies to forward many most important schemes; it has secured, after much labour, the opening on Saturdays of upwards of 200 Board School playgrounds, and its influence upon the work of the public bodies has been wonderful. It is, for instance, scarcely too much to say that a week seldom goes by without some communication passing between the Association and the London County Council. But my subject is graveyards only, and the following is a list of those that have been laid out as recreation grounds and opened by the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association since the Spring of 1885:— 1. St. Bartholomew’s Churchyard, Bethnal Green, E. 2. The East London Cemetery, E. 3. Holy Trinity Churchyard, Rotherhithe, S.E. 4. St. Paul’s Churchyard, Shadwell, E. 5. Spa Fields, Clerkenwell, E.C. 6. St. John at Hackney Churchyard, E. (a part). 7. St. Mary le Strand Ground in Russell Court, W.C. 8. St. James’s Churchyard, Bermondsey, S.E. 9. Holy Trinity Churchyard, Mile End, E. 10. St. Martin’s in the Fields Churchyard, W.C. 11. St. George’s Churchyard, Camberwell, S.E. 12. St. Dunstan’s Churchyard, Stepney, E. 13. St. Anne’s Churchyard, Limehouse, E. 14. Trinity Chapel-ground, Poplar, E. 15. St. Alphege Churchyard, Greenwich, S.E. 16. Seward Street Burial-ground, E.C. 17. St. James’s Churchyard, Ratcliff, E. 18. St. Botolph’s Churchyard, Aldgate, E. 19. St. Ann’s Churchyard, Soho, W. 20. Shoreditch Old Ground, Hackney Road, E. 21. Christ Church Churchyard, Spitalfields, E. 22. All Saints’ Churchyard, Poplar, E. (a part). 23. St. Botolph’s Churchyard, Bishopsgate, E.C. 24. St. Katharine Coleman Churchyard, E.C. 25. St. Olave’s Churchyard, Silver Street, E.C. 26. Victoria Park Cemetery, or Meath Gardens, E. 27. Allhallows’ Churchyard, London Wall, E.C. 28. St. Mary’s Churchyard, Bow, E. (a part). 29. St. Peter’s Churchyard, Walworth, S.E. 30. St.