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ornamental trees and shrubs. The committee sum up 

 with the remark, that " the general appearance of the 

 whole grounds should be that of a well-managed park, 

 and the lots only so far ornamented with shrubs and 

 flowers as to constitute rich borders to the avenues and 

 pathways, without giving to them the aspect of a dense 

 and wild coppice, or a neglected garden, whose trees 

 and plants have so multiplied and interlaced their 

 roots and branches, as to completely destroy all that airi- 

 ness, grace, and luxuriance of growth, which good taste 

 demands," principles which, too long overlooked, are 

 at last recognized as the only true grounds of proced- 

 ure in the formation of rural cemeteries. 



In the autumn of 1831 orders were sent to London 

 and Paris for such books as could be procured in rela- 

 tion to cemeteries and funeral monuments ; and on the 

 8th of September, 1832, Gen. Dearborn made a report 

 on three of these books which had been received, re- 

 lating principally to the Cemetery of Pere La Chaise. 

 A portion of the historical and descriptive account of 

 that celebrated burial-place was translated by Gen. 

 Dearborn, and appended to this report, in the belief that 

 it would be interesting to the members of the Society 

 and to all who had any part in, or had visited the simi- 

 lar establishment at Mount Auburn. The following 

 passage from this report will further illustrate Gen. 

 Dearborn's zeal in behalf of the garden and cemetery: 



" It will be perceived, from the accompanying account of Pere 

 La Chaise, that many years had passed by before that magnificent 

 cemetery claimed public attention, and became a resort of the 

 admirers of the arts, the opulent and enlightened, as well as the 

 common place of sepulture for the most illustrious in letters, 

 science, and arms, and of the humblest citizens of Paris. A year 



