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date the deeds, more than one hundred and twenty in 

 number, giving the various purchasers a right to their 

 lots, were signed by H. A. S. Dearborn as president of 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



The original price of lots was sixty dollars for three 

 hundred square feet; and a certain number of lots 

 were kept surveyed, in anticipation of sales at this 

 price. It was, however, voted, November 3, 1831, 

 that, "if an applicant choose to have a new lot as- 

 signed to him, the committee may, if they see fit, grant 

 him a new lot on his paying ten dollars additional to 

 his former dues." The addition subsequently required 

 was twenty dollars. The price of a surveyed lot has 

 been from time to time increased, the advance being 

 founded on the greater value of the cemetery, and the 

 difference in interest to early purchasers. 



On the opening of the spring of 1832, Gen. Dear- 

 born again took hold of the work at Mount Auburn, so 

 congenial to his taste, with the same unwearied energy 

 and disinterested enthusiasm as in the previous year. 

 John B. Russell, one of the founders of the Society, in 

 his Reminiscences of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society, 1 speaking of Gen. Dearborn, says, " As the 

 funds at his command were limited, he hired only a few 

 laborers, and superintended and worked with them him- 

 self. I remember seeing him, hoe in hand, day after 

 day, at the head of his laborers, levelling and grading 

 the walks, taking his dinner with him, which he would 

 step into the Wyeth House across the road to eat." 

 Similar recollections were expressed by Mr. David 

 Stone, who sold the greater part of the land to Mr. 

 Brimmer, and who worked many months with Gen. 



1 Tilton's Journal of Horticulture, Vol. VII. p. 278. 



