94 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



and on the 2d of December the treasurer was ordered 

 to pay thirty-five dollars for an iron fence around her 

 monument. 



The Horticultural Society from the outset exerted its 

 whole influence to make Mount Auburn a model in all 

 respects ; and the Garden and Cemetery Committee 

 appended to their account of the work done in 1832, 

 from which many of the preceding statements have been 

 derived, some valuable Suggestions as to the Manner 

 of Laying out and Improving the Cemetery Lots at 

 Mount Auburn, designed to secure a general system in 

 the mode of constructing tombs, enclosing lots, and 

 ornamenting them with trees, shrubs, and flowers. It 

 was desired that all monuments should be of marble or 

 granite ; and that, when they consisted of slabs, they 

 should be placed horizontally, and not in a perpendic- 

 ular position ; and that all railings or enclosures of lots 

 should be light, neat, and symmetrical. It was a part 

 of the original design, though not obligatory, that in- 

 terments should be in single graves, rather than in 

 tombs, the extent of the cemetery affording ample room 

 for this method ; but recommendations were given as to 

 the best mode of constructing tombs, as well as graves, 

 when the former were preferred. It was advised that 

 the area of the lots should not be planted with trees or 

 shrubs, but left free and open ; that plants used for edg- 

 ings should be of very humble character ; and that 

 hedges should be avoided, as liable to become so filled 

 with wood as to present a mass of branches with but 

 little verdure, while the ground would be filled with 

 roots, and the monuments would be hidden from view. 

 Directions were also given for securing a verdant surface 

 of turf, and for forming the borders for flowers and 



