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" alley green,' 



Dingle, or bushy dell, in this wild wood, 

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



The Garden also can be very considerah'y advanced, within the 

 same short period which will suffice for developing the inijjrovementa 

 of the Cemetery. The nuiseries in;iy be established, the departments 

 for culinary vegf'tables, fruit and orniimental 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 tlieir surface may i)e spangled 

 with the brilliant Ijlossoms of the Nymphaea, and the other beautiful 

 tribes of aquatic 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 whi'-h will be embellished by cultivated plants. 



From these favorable circumstances and the generous zeal which 

 has been evinced for the energetic prosecution of the labors, which 

 are required to perfect the details of the whole extensive plan, there 

 no longer remains the least doubt, that, in the summer of 1^34, Mount 

 Auburn will rival the most celebrated 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 com- 

 menced on an ever-during foundation, has the approbation and patro- 

 nage of an enterprising, intelligent, and prosperous community, and 

 cannot fail of progressing in a manner that must give universal satis- 

 faction. There has Horticulture eatablislied her temple, — there will 

 all denominations of Christians surrender up their prejudices, — there 

 will repose the ashes of the humble and exalted, in the silent and 

 sacred Garden of the Dead, until summoned to those of eternal life, 

 in realms beyond the skies. 



Respectfully submitted by H. A. S. Dearborn, 



For the Committee. 



AN ACCOUNT OF THE WORK, 



DONE AT MOUNT AUBURN, DURI.N'G THE TEAR 1832. 



Most of the avenues and paths, whicli were laid out last autumn, 

 were constructed during the spring, affording a carriage drive of 

 nearly three miles, and an equal extent of foot walks, which rendered 

 Mount Auburn the most pleasant place of resort in the vicinity of the 

 capital, during the whole season. The visitors were numerous, be- 

 yond all expectation, who thronged the grounds until the close of 

 autumn. 



Early in August the Garden and Cemetery Committee caused 

 other avenues to be laid out and constructed, and a road made on the 

 eastern side, which unites the highways on the south and north east, 

 and completes the line of centre comuninication with the main road 

 from Boston to Watertown, thus furnishing a new and most interest- 

 ing approach to the establishment, from Brighton, Brookline, Roxbury, 

 and other towns south of Charles River, as well as from the city. 



