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produced which could not have been realized for forty years, if 

 it had been necessary to have commenced the establishment, 

 by planting out forest trees. There are numerous majestic oaks, 

 pines, beeches and walnuts, which have braved the storms of a 

 century. Towering aloft amidst the general verdure, and ex- 

 tending their huge branches far and wide, they appear as the 

 venerable monarchs of the grove, but still exhibit the vigor of 

 their luxuriant progeny, which, in umbrageous contiguity, cover 

 each hill and plain and sloping vale, and form many an 



- alley green. 



Dingle, or bashy dell, in this wild wood. 

 And many a bosky bourn, from side to side.' 



The Garden also, can be very considerably advanced, within 

 the same short period which will suffice for developing the im- 

 provements of the Cemetery. The nurseries may be established, 

 the departments for culinary vegetables, fruit, and ornamental 

 trees, shrubs and flowers, laid out and planted, a green house 

 built, hot-beds formed, the small ponds and morasses converted 

 into picturesque sheets of water, and their margins diversified 

 by clumps and belts of our most splendid native flowering trees,, 

 and shrubs, requiring a soil thus constituted for their successful 

 cultivation, while their surface may be spangled with the brilliant 

 blossoms of the Nymphse, and the other beautiful tribes of aquat- 

 ic plants. The excavations for deepening and enlarging the 

 ponds and morasses will afford inexhaustible sources of manure, 

 of invaluable consequence to the Garden, as well as for those 

 portions of the Cemetery which will be embellished by cultivated 

 plants. 



From these favorable circumstances and the generous zeal 

 which has been evinced for the energetic prosecution of the la- 

 bors, which are required to perfect the details of the whole ex- 

 tensive plan, there no longer remnins the least doubt, that in 

 the summer of 1834 Mount Auburn will rival the most celebrat- 

 ed rural burial grounds of Europe, and present a garden in such 

 a state of forwardness as will be highly gratifying to the Society, 

 and the public. The work has been commenced on an ever- 

 during foundation ; has the approbation, and patronage, of an 

 enterprising, intelligent and prosperous community ; and cannot 

 fail of progressing in a manner, that must give universal satis- 

 faction. There has Horticulture established her temple, — there 

 will all denominations of Christians surrender up their preju- 

 dices, — there will repose the ashes of the humble, and exalted, 

 in the silent and sacred Garden of the Dead, until summoned, 

 to thoge of eternal life, in realms beyond the skies. 



H. A. S. DEARBORN, 



For the Committe . 



Horticuhnral Hall, SqH. mth. 1631. 



