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interest that attaches itself to such a spot ! How salutary the 

 effect which a visit to its calm and sacred shades will produce on 

 souls too much agitated by the storms of the world ! It was 

 surely fitting that art and nature should combine their beauties to 

 grace a scene devoted to purposes so high and holy." 



Mr. Everett was but thirty-three years old when he 

 pronounced this beautiful address. How little he knew 

 what was before him! Instead of sleeping in the 

 bosom of Mount Auburn, " he lies buried on Dane's 

 Island, near Macao in China, under a monument erected 

 at the expense of the United States, he having died in 

 office as resident minister to China, on the 28th of 

 June, 1847, being the first person who had filled that 

 office from this country." 1 



In 1834 it was perceived that the interests of the 

 proprietors of lots in the cemetery and those of the 

 other members of the Horticultural Society were too 

 unlike to be successfully united in one corporation. 

 The most important point on which a difference of opin- 

 ion and interest existed was the division of the pro- 

 ceeds of sales of lots between the two branches of the 

 establishment, the experimental garden and the ceme- 

 tery, and it was not always easy of adjustment. On the 

 question of legal and moral right it was found that the 

 Horticultural Society held the fee of the land, and that 

 to it was due whatever credit belonged to the inception 

 of the undertaking. On the other hand, it appeared 

 that the number of lot holders was rapidly increasing ; 

 that from the condition of purchase, that, upon paying 

 for his lot, every subscriber should be a member for life 

 of the Horticultural Society, they would soon have a con- 

 trolling vote in its affairs ; 2 that from them had been 



1 Letter of the Hon. Edward Everett, dated March 8, 1862. 



2 At the annual meeting of the Society September 21, 1833, a vote was 



