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underwood, and the whole of the grounds so far cleared up, as to 

 give them the appearance of a park, during the present autumn. 

 It is expected that the lots may be assigned within twenty days. 



The committee has been cheered in the discharge of its du- 

 ties, by the deep interest which has been manifested for the suc- 

 cess of an undertaking, so important to the prosperity of the 

 Horticultural Society and so honorable to the country. Such is 

 the exalted estimation in which it is held by the public, — so 

 universal is the approbation, — so intense the interest, that, be- 

 side the constant requests for permission to become subscribers, 

 by the more affluent, numerous applications have been made for 

 cemetery lots, by farmers, mechanics and dealers in building 

 materials, on condition, that they may be paid for in labor, or 

 such articles as shall be required in the prosecution of the pro- 

 posed improvements. Within a few days, offers have been made 

 to a considerable amount ; and as it was the intention and is 

 the anxious desire of the Society, that every citizen should have 

 an opportunity of participating in the advantages of the establish 

 ment, the committee has availed of the services thus tendered 

 in executing much of the work which has been performed, and 

 there is not a doubt, that a very considerable portion of the ex- 

 pense in constructing roads, fences, gateways and the various 

 other edifices, may be defrayed, by a compensation in cemetery 

 lots; this will not only be a great accommodation to numerous 

 individuals, who are desirous to become subscribers, but be 

 highly advantageous to the Society ; it is therefore recommended 

 that the committee be authorized, to prosecute such improve- 

 ments, as may be deemed necessary, on these reciprocally ben- 

 eficial terms. 



With the view of fully meeting the expectations and exigen- 

 cies of the comumnity, it is considered advisable that sites for 

 single graves should be designated, in various parts of the ceme- 

 tery, embracing all the diversified localities, to afford an oppor- 

 tunity for individuals, who have no families, and the friends of 

 such strangers as may be wept and honored far distant from their 

 native land, to procure eligible places of sepulchre, on reason- 

 able terras. 



As the tract which has been solemnly consecrated, by relig- 

 ious ceremonies, as a burial-place forever, is so abundantly cov- 

 ered with forest trees, many of which are more than sixty years 

 old, it only requires the avenues to be formed, the borders', for 

 some ten feet in width, planted with shrubs, bulbous and peren- 

 nial flowers, the underwood cleared out, the fences, gateways 

 and appropriate edifices erected, to put the grounds in a suf- 

 ficiently complete state for the uses designed, and to render 

 them at once beautiful and interesting. Ail this can be done 

 within two years, at a comparatively small expense, and a result 



