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Under the authority of the Horticultural Society, twenty-five acres 

 of land on the west have been purchased, making the whole quantity 

 over one hundred acres, now appropriated to the Cemetery and 

 Garden, which have been enclosed by a neat aud substantial fence 

 seven feet high. The main entrance has been embellished by an 

 Egyptian Gateway, twenty-five feet high, with lodues in imitation, 

 of small temples for the porter, and supermteiident, making the 

 entire front one hundred and ten feet, terminated by obelisks. The 

 plan of tho 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 than thirty 

 acres, has i)een laid out, and the paths ami avenues constructed, and 

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

 and to be planted out 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 affiard a constant sheet of water, with a fall at the outlet of three 

 feet, and being embanked, avenues with a border of six feet, for 

 shrubs and flowers, have been made all round it. In the centre an 

 island has been formed, having a path on the margin, which is con- 

 nected with the avenue on the western side by a bridge twenty-four 

 feet in length, neatly railed and painted ; and another bridge of like 

 form and extent thrown over the outlet, which aifords a communica- 

 tion with the Cemetery ground by the way of the Indian Ridge Path. 



A receiving tomb with walls formed of granite, and covered with 

 massive blocks of stone, and surmounted by a quadrangular tumulus, 

 covered with sods. The entrance is by a flight of stone steps, and 

 is secured with an iron Gothic door. 



On the western side of Cypress Avenue, a public burial lot, ninety 

 feet long and twenty-four feet wide, has been laid out and surrounded 

 with an iron fence. Being divided into four compartments, by two 

 paths, crossing each other at right angles, it will afford sufficient 

 space for sixty sepulchres, for the accommodation of such persons as 

 do not own one of the large cemetery lots. 



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

 Forest and Consecration-Dell Ponds, and surrounding them by em- 

 bellished pathways, like those of Garden-Pond, and for cleaning the 

 eastern portion of Garden and of Meadow Ponds, of bushes and weeds; 

 all which will be done during the winter, that season being the most 

 favorable for such work. 



Mr. David Haggerston, of Charlestown, has been engaged as Su- 

 perintendent and Gardener of the Cemetery and Experimental Garden, 

 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 com- 

 menced under the most favorable auspices. 



A number of superb marble and granite monuments, some of 

 them fifteen feet high, have been erected; many lots are surrounded 

 by beautiful iron fences, or prepared for planting out trees, shrubs, and 

 flowers, the next year ; while several tombs of superior construction 

 have been made. 



