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In conformity to the authority thus granted, the Committee was 

 enlarged, and consisted of the following members : 



JOSEPH STORY, Chairman. 

 DANIEL WEBSTER, 

 H. A. S. DEARBORN, 

 SAMUEL APPLETON, 

 CHARLES LOWELL, 

 JACOB BIGELOW, 

 EDWARD EVERETT, 

 GEORGE BOND, 

 G. W. BRIMMER, 

 L. M. SARGENT, 

 ABBOT LAWRENCE, 

 FRANKLIN DEXTER, 

 ALEXANDER H. EVERETT, 

 CHARLES P. CURTIS, 

 JOSEPH P. BRADLEE, 

 JOHN PIERPONT, 

 ZEBEDEE COOK, 

 CHARLES TAPPAN, 

 G, W. PRATT. 



After much deliberation, a plan having been matured, it was deter- 

 mined to submit the following Reports to the consideration of the 

 Society : 



Proceedings of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society at an adjourned 

 meeting, held in the apartments of the Institution, on Saturday the 

 18th of June, I831. 



The following Report was made by the committee on a Garden of 

 Experiment and Rural Cemetery. 



The committee appointed to inquire into the expediency of measures 

 being taken for the establishment of an Experimental Garden, and 

 Rural Cemetery, ask leave to 



REPORT. 



When the Massachusetts Horticultural Society was organised, it 

 was confidently anticipated, that, at no very distant period, a Garden of 

 Experiment would be established in the vicinity of Boston ; but, to 

 arrive at such a pleasing result, it was deemed expedient that our efforts 

 should first be directed to the accomplishment of objects which would 

 not require very extensive pecuniary resources ; that we should proceed 

 with great caution, and, by a prudential management of our means, 

 gradually develope a more complete and efficient system for rendering 

 the institution as extensively useful as it was necessary and important. 

 Public favor was to be propitiated by the adoption of such incipient 

 measures as were best calculated to encourage patronage and insure 

 ultimate success. 



With these views, the labors of the Society have been confined to 

 the collection and dissemination of intelligence, plants, scions, and 

 seeds, in the various departments of Horticulture. An entensive cor- 

 respondence was therefore opened with similar associations in this 



