REPORT 



OF THE 



COMMITTEE ON GARDENS, 



For the Year 1877. 



By JOSEPH H. WOODFORD, Chairman. 



The Garden Committee received the following applications to 

 visit places during the year, viz. : 



One from Henry Youell, gardener at the City Hospital, of Boston, 

 to inspect the flower garden connected with that institution. 



One from Henry Ross, Superintendent of the Newton Cemetery, 

 to inspect that Cemetery. 



One from Francis B. Hayes, of Lexington, to inspect his estate, 

 entered for the Hunnewell Triennial Prize. 



One from John Falconer, gardener to Mrs. C. H. Leonard, to 

 visit her flower garden, at Rochester. 



At the first regular meeting of the Committee, it was voted to lay 

 the application of Mr. Youell on the table, and to instruct the 

 Chairman to privately visit the garden of the City Hospital, and if, 

 in his judgment, he believed it to be worth}' of an official inspection 

 to notify the Committee. The Chairman did make the visit, but did 

 not deem it advisable to call the Committee together for an ofliicial 

 inspection, as there was nothing of special interest either in the 

 plants or their arrangement, to call forth much praise. The heat- 

 ing apparatus for the greenhouse, described in the Garden Com- 

 mittee's Report for 1875, is worthy of a much better result than 

 Mr. Youell seems to derive from it, judging from the display of 

 plants on the hospital grounds, and that report, in the judgment of 

 the Chairman would be a fair one for this year. 



The application of Mr. Falconer to visit Mrs. C. H. Leonard's 



