76 HISTORICAL SKETCH. 



Natural History and Physics as are applicable to Horticulture, the culture 

 of Fruit, Forest and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Flowering Plants and 

 Culinary and such other Vegetable products as are employed in the indus- 

 trial arts, and in the composition of Landscape and Picturesque Gardens. 



" To complete these theoretic studies, there should bo a Library, a Cabi- 

 net of demonstrative apparatus, instruments, models and implements, and 

 an Herbary. 



" Instructors will likewise be required for Teaching Topography and 

 Drawing, to enable the pupils to project maps, lay out grounds in the most 

 correct and tasteful manner, and furnish plans and elevations for rural 

 edifices of all kinds. Beside the advantages to be derived from drawing, 

 for these purposes, it Avill be a useful accomplishment in the fruit and flower 

 departments of cultivation, as it is frequently necessary, or desirable, at 

 least, to delineate specimens in an accurate and beautiful manner. 



" To obtain admission, the pupils should not be under fifteen years of 

 age ; be correct in their morals ; able to read and write, and acquainted 

 with arithmetic, and engage to remain at least three years. No compensa- 

 tion to be required of them, as their labor in the Garden will be sufficient 

 to defray the expense of instruction." 



This branch of the establishment, it was not deemed expedient to com- 

 mence, from an apprehension that it might involve such an expense as 

 would jeopardize the success of the two others, which were considered of 

 primary consequence ; but it was only postponed, for it was never lost sight 

 of by the Society ; and it is now to be hoped, that the day is not distant 

 when it will be founded, for the importance of such an institution cannot 

 be doubted by any person, who desires the advancement of intelligence 

 throughout all classes of the people, in every portion of their numerous and 

 diversified occupations. 



The Report of the Committee having been accepted, " Sweet Auburn" 

 was purchased, and several adjoining tracts, which augmented the area of 

 the grounds to about one hundred acres. On the twentythird of June, an 

 additional Act of the Legislature was obtained, authorizing the Society to 

 hold real estate to the value of twenty thousand dollars, and to appropriate 

 a part of it for a Rural Cemetery ; which having been accepted on the 

 second day of July, the following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Garden and Cemetery Committee : Joseph Story, Henry A. S. Dearborn, 

 Dr. Jacob Bigelow, George W. Brimmer, Edward Everett, B. A. Gould, 

 Charles Wells, G. W. Pratt and George Bond. 



The duty of laying out the grounds, and preparing them for the purposes 

 of a Garden and Cemetery, was devolved upon a sub-committee, consisting 

 of Henry A. S. Dearborn, the President of the Society, Dr. Jacob Bige- 

 low and George W. Brimmer, Esq., and they immediately commenced the 

 labors assigned them. 



