APPENDIX. 



BY ORDER OF THE COMMITTEE. 



The recent purchase and disposition of the grounds at Mount 

 Auburn, has effected the consummation of two designs, which for 

 a considerable time have been cherished by numerous members 

 of the community, in the city of Boston, and its vicinity. One 

 of these, is the institution of a Garden for the promotion of Scien- 

 tific Horticuhure ; — the other, the establishment, in the environs 

 of the city, of a retired and ornamented place of Sepulture. 



Six or seven years ago, meetings were held, and measures 

 taken, to carry into effect the plan of a private rural Cemetery, 

 But although there appeared to be no want of interest in the de* 

 sign, and of numbers sufficient to effect its execution, yet the 

 scheme was suspended, from the difficulty of obtaining, at that 

 time, a lot of land in all respects eligible for the purpose. 



After the establishment of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society, in 1829, it occurred to some of its members, that a Ceme- 

 tery of the character which had been desired, might with great 

 propriety be instituted under the auspices of this new Society, 

 and that by a union of the interests of each institution, the suc- 

 cess and permanency of tlieir objects might be reciprocally pro- 

 moted Upon a notification signed by Dr. J. Bigelow and John 

 C. Gray, Esq. a meeting of gentlemen was held at the Exchange 

 Coffee House, November 27, 1830, for the general consideration of 

 the subject. At this meeting it was announced that a tract of ground, 

 of about seventy acres, at the place then called Sweet Auburn, 

 raid owned by G. W. Brimmer, Esq., would be placed at the dis- 

 posal of the Society. A committee was appointed at a cotem- 

 poraneous meeting of the Horticultural Society, to consider the 

 expediency of making this purchase, and to devise measures for 

 forwarding the design of a rural Cemetery and experimental Gar- 

 den. This committee afterwards obtained leave to fill their own 

 vacancies, and to enlarge their number by the addition of persons 

 not members of the Horticultural Society. A report in behalf of 

 this committee was afterwards made by Gen. H. A. S. Dearborn, 

 President of the Society, and published in the newspapers, in 

 which an extensive and able exposition was made of the advan- 

 tages of the undertaking. 



At a meeting of persons favorably disposed towards the design, 

 held at the Horticultural Rooms, June Sth, 1831, a strong and 

 general wish was manifested for the immediate prosecution of tlie 

 undertaking. A committee of twenty was chosen to consider 

 and report upon a general plan of proceedings. The following 



