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tories formed by John P. Gushing at Watertown. On 

 the 2d of August Mr. Russell exhibited eight new va- 

 rieties of Balsams, on the 9th Plectocephalus (Centaurea) 

 Americanus, Asters, and Tropaeolums ; and on the 16th 

 of August and the 13th of September bouquets are re- 

 ported from Mount Auburn. At the Annual Exhibi- 

 tion, held in Faneuil Hall, September 17, 18, and 19, 

 elegant bouquets were contributed from the Society's 

 garden, and some of the wreaths and cut flowers for 

 decorating the hall were furnished from the same place. 

 Even after the separation of the cemetery from the 

 Horticultural Society, the child remembered its parent ; 

 for we find the record of the exhibition, on the 5th of 

 September, 1835, of a beautiful bouquet of new varie- 

 ties of China Asters, tastefully arranged in pyramidal 

 form, by Mr. Russell, and at the Annual Exhibition in 

 the Odeon, September 16 and 17, of a profusion of cut 

 flowers from Mount Auburn Garden. 



These notices of the products of the experimental 

 garden, which we have gleaned from the reports of the 

 Society's exhibitions in the New England Farmer, are 

 sufficient to show that its friends were in earnest in 

 founding and supporting it. But though its establish- 

 ment was a leading motive in the purchase of Mount 

 Auburn, 1 and though its advantages were set forth in 

 reports and addresses, the Society had no funds spe- 

 cially appropriated for its support, and most of the pro- 

 prietors of cemetery lots probably felt an indifference, if 

 not a positive aversion, to the idea of an experimental 



1 An indication of the relative importance in which the two branches of 

 the establishment at Mount Auburn were held by the Horticultural Society 

 may be found in the fact that in their publications it is almost invariably 

 spoken of as the Garden and Cemetery, the cemetery being very seldom 

 placed first. 



