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ten feet, terminated by obelisks. The plan of the gate was taken from one 

 of those in Thebes, described in the great work of the French savans 

 on Egypt. 



" The Experimental Garden, including an area of more ihan thirty 

 acres, has been laid out, and the paths and avenues constructed, and 

 bordered with turf, so that the whole will be in readiness for cuhivation^ 

 and to be planted with fruit and ornamental trees and shrubs next Spring. 



" A Cottage, for the Superintendent and Gardener, has been raised and 

 will be finished, with the requisite offices, by the last of February. The 

 upper Garden pond has been excavated, to a sufficient depth to afford a 

 constant sheet of water, with a fall, at the outlet, of three feet, and being 

 embanked, paths with a border, six feet wide, for shrubs and flowers have 

 been made round it. In the centre an island has been formed, having a 

 path on its margin, which is connected with that on the western side of the 

 pond by a bridge twenlyfour feet in length, neatly railed and painted ; and 

 another bridge, of like form, thrown over the outlet, which affords a com- 

 munication with the Cemetery grounds by the way of Indian Ridge 

 path. 



'' A receiving Tomb has been made, with walls formed of granite and 

 covered with massive blocks of stone, and surmounted by a quadrangular 

 tumulous covered with sods. 



" On the western side of Cypress avenue, a public burial lot, ninety feet 

 long and twentyfour feet wide, has been laid out and surrounded with an 

 iron fence. 



" Arrangements have been made for excavating, to a greater depth. 

 Forest and Consecration DeU ponds, and surrounding them by embellished 

 pathways, and for cleaning the eastern portion of Garden and Meadow 

 ponds, of weeds and bushes, during the Winter. 



" David Haggerston, of Cliarlestown, has been engaged as Superin- 

 tendent and Gardener, and will enter on his duties the first of March, when 

 the cottage will be ready for his reception ; and from his known intelligence, 

 skill and taste in the cultivation of trees and plants of all kinds, we have 

 the fullest confidence that our labors the next season will be commenced 

 under the most favorable auspices. 



" A number of superb marble and granite monuments have been erected ; 

 many lots surrounded by beautiful iron fences, or prepared for the recep- 

 tion of trees, shrubs and flowers the next year ; while several tombs, of 

 superior construction, have been erected. 



" But a little more than a year has elapsed since the purchase of the 

 land, and the various works were commenced ; and the result is much 

 more favorable than the most sanguine anticipated, leaving no doubt of a 

 successful and speedy accomplishment of the entire plan." 



In the Autumn of 1834, three hundred and fiftyone lots had been sold, 



