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was appointed secretary. There was a good attendance, 

 and much interest was expressed by various speakers in 

 reference to the proposed purchase of " Sweet Auburn " 

 in behalf of the Horticultural Society. The plan agreed 

 upon was to purchase the estate of Mr. Brimmer as 

 soon as one hundred subscribers for lots in the cemetery 

 could be obtained, at sixty dollars each, which would 

 give the required sum. The following-named persons 

 were elected members of the committee: Joseph Story, 

 Daniel Webster, H. A. S. Dearborn, Charles Lowell, 

 Samuel Appleton, Jacob Bigelow, Edward Everett, 

 George W. Brimmer, George Bond, A. H. Everett, 

 Abbott Lawrence, James T. Austin, Franklin Dexter, 

 Joseph P. Bradlee, Charles Tappan, Charles P. Curtis, 

 Zebedee Cook, jun., John Pierpont, L. M. Sargent, and 

 George W. Pratt. The committee unanimously re- 

 ported on the 18th of June, through Gen. Dearborn, 

 who drew up the report, in which the advantages of 

 the proposed experimental garden and cemetery were 

 fully and eloquently set forth. That part of their re- 

 port relating to the method of raising subscriptions for 

 the experimental garden and cemetery was as follows : 



1. That it is expedient to purchase for a garden and ceme- 

 tery a tract of land, commonly known by the name of " Sweet 

 Auburn," near the road leading from Cambridge to Watertown, 

 containing about seventy-two acres, for the sum of six thousand 

 dollars ; provided this sum can be raised in the manner proposed 

 in the second article of this report. 



2. That a subscription be opened for lots of ground in the said 

 tract, containing not less than two hundred square feet each, at 

 the price of sixty dollars for each lot, the subscription not to be 

 binding until one hundred lots are subscribed for. 



3. That, when a hundred or more lots are taken, the right of 

 choice shall be disposed of at an auction, of which seasonable 

 notice shall be given to the subscribers. 



