PROCEEDINGS 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 



AT A MEETING HELD AT THE HALL OF THE INSTITUTION, 

 ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1832. 



Tlie following Report was made by H. A. S. Dearborn, Presi- 

 dent of the Society : — 



Last autumn orders were sent to Paris and London for such 

 works as could be procured, in relation to cemeteries and funeral 

 monuments. Recently the following publications have been re- 

 ceived from France : — 



1st. Les Mausolecs Francois, par F. C. T. Jolimont, 1 vol. 4to. 

 It contains an account of some of the most remarkable monu- 

 ments in the Cemetery of Pere La Chaise, illustrated with fifty 

 beautiful engravings. 



2d. Rcaicil de Tomheaux dcs Quatrc Cimetiei'es de Paris, par 

 C. P. Arnaud, 2 vols. 8vo. It gives a description of the Ceme- 

 teries of Pera La Chaise, Sous Montmartre, Vougirard and Sainte 

 Catherine, embellished with eighty-tw-o plates. 



3d. Mnnurl ct Itincraiue du Curioiix Dans la Cimetierc du 

 Pcre. La Chaise, par F. M. Marchant de Beaumont, 1 vol. 12mo. 



This little volume contains a description of Pere La Chaise 

 and of three hundred and forty-two sepulchres. It is ornamented 

 with a plan of the cemetery and engravings of several of the 

 monuments. 



I have translated portions of the historical and descriptive 

 accounts of that celebrated burial-place, from a belief it would 

 be interesting to the members of the Society, and to all persons 

 who have visited or patronized a similar establishment which has 

 been commenced at Mount Auburn. 



In a former report I alluded to the progress which had been 

 made in the work, that was begun the last season, for preparing 

 that beautiful site as the garden of the dead; and I am now happy 

 to announce, that the whole of the land will soon be inclosed by 

 a neat and substantial picket fence, seven feet in height, and that 



