170 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Office of Mount Auburn Cemetery Corporation, 

 IG Pkmuehton Square, Boston, Jan. 1, 1874. 

 Gentlemen, — Enclosed please And copy of accounts of Improvements, 

 etc., for the year 1873, as rendered by the Superintendent of Mount Auburn 

 Cemetery, showing in detail the cliarges rendered in my account with the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society for the year 1873. 

 Very respectfully your obedient servant, 



H. B. MACKINTOSH, Treasurer. 

 To Messrs. C. O. Whitmore and H. H. Hunnewell, 



Finance Committee Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Dr. 



To the Proprietors of the Cemetery at Mount Auburn for the year ending 



Dec. 31, 1873: — 

 For one fourth part of the following expenditures : — 

 Jan. 10. Grading and filling at Marigold Path, 

 bet. Lime Avcs., with gravel from 

 Althea and Clethra Paths, 462 days, 

 men and horses, @ §2.50 per day . $1,155 00 

 Grading and filling on WatrissLot, 154 

 days, men and horses, @ $2.50 per 



day 385 00 



May 9. Grading between Garden, Yew, and 

 Fountain Aves., R. Ross, for plough- 

 ing, $26.25 ; seed, $10.05 . . 42 30 

 23 days men and horses, @ $2.50 . 67 60 

 July 8. Grading between Lime and Fountain , 

 Aves., near Wistaria Path, 20 days, 

 men and horses, @ $2.50 . . 50 00 

 Aug. 16. Grading Hazel Dell and Linden Paths, 

 10 days labor @ 2.50 . $25 00 

 20 loads gravel, @ 55c., $11; 



5 loads loam, $5.50 . . 16 50 



Sods 16 56 58 06 



Oct. 18. Grading between Chapel and Asphodel 



Paths, 24 days labor, @ $2.50 . 60 00 



31 loads loam, @ $1.10, $34.10; sods, 



$18.24 62 34 



Nov. 6. Moving a portion of fence around 

 Watriss Lot, so as to include fenc^ 

 of Chant Lot. Moving and put- 

 ting up, carpenter's bill . . 146 00 

 7 days labor, grading, @ $2.50 , . 18 76 



$2.024 96 



Mount Auburn, Dec. 31, 1873. . 



I certify the foregoing to be a true copy of accounts of improvements for 

 the year 1873, rendered by the Superintendent. 



H. B. MACKINTOSH, Treasurer. 



