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Perpetual Care and Permanent Funds ; the first named for the 

 care of the lots ; the second for the buildings and avenues. These 

 two funds have already attained a good sum, and will be ample in 

 the future for the purposes for which they are intended. I have 

 only given a very brief sketch of Forest Hills Cemetery, but cer- 

 tainly as much as the occasion calls for. Its fine location and 

 attractive entrance, together with its immediate connection with 

 Franklin Park, and the excellent drives from Boston insures for it 

 a very promising future, and the citizens will find in the develop- 

 ment of the grounds, that they can all be accommodated in their 

 wishes, from those whose means are limited to others whom good 

 fortune has blessed with a greater abundance. 



Mrs. B. p. Cheney's Estate, South Natick. 



The object of this visit, made on the 2d of November, was 

 especially to see the Chrysanthemums, of which we found a good 

 collection of well-grown plants. Mr. John Barr, gardener, 

 informs us that he grew 700 to one stem and bloom, w^hich were 

 propagated in May and planted out in June. He grew them 

 indoors all summer. There were over one hundred distinct named 

 Japanese varieties and tw^enty Chinese in the collection. Mr. Barr 

 considers that quite a number of the Japanese are not worth grow- 

 ing except as exhibition blooms ; 500 were grown in boxes on 

 account of the convenience of handling them, it being an easy and 

 quick way of filling up the house, and as they are done flowering 

 they can be cleaned out gradually and the space used for other 

 purposes. The results of this mode of cultivation were quite as 

 satisfactory as growing them on benches. For fertilizing, clay 

 and sheep manure were used. Thirty plants, mostly Japanese 

 varieties, were growing in twelve-inch pots. Those growing in 

 boxes were particularly noticeable, and that mode of cultivation — 

 new to at least a portion of your Committee — it seems to them 

 might be adopted by many growers as an easy w^ay of giving a 

 place to this popular flower. 



There are three greenhouses and two vineries, one of the 

 greenhouses being used as a Rose house ; another for growing 

 Carnations, Cyclamens, Cinerarias, and other winter flowering 

 plants ; and the other for Palms and Foliage Plants for use in the 

 summer season. The Palms and many other plants are placed in 



