vol,. XI. NO. 81. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY. 



It is well known that the beautiful grounds of 

 Mount Auburn have been purehased and enclosed 

 by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and 

 that a part of them have been converted into a 

 Cemetery. The Society are desirous of still 

 further embellishing and adapting these grounds 

 to the purposes of an ornamental burial-place. It 

 is their wish also to complete the laying out of a 

 Garden, and to build a Cottage on the premises, 

 for the residence of a Superintendent and Garil- 



The success of the design has, thus far, fully 

 equalled the expectations of its friends. The 

 amotmt received from the sale of lots in the 

 Cemetery, is about 12,000 dollars, the whole oi 

 which has been expended in the purchase of laud, 

 the construction of avenues, the building of a 

 fence round the estate, and other necessary char- 

 ges. It is very important to commence additional 

 improvements at an early period the next spring, 

 and, in fact, many of them could be carried on 

 during the present season, if the funds were ade- 

 quate ; but they are at ])resent insufficient. It 

 is the object of the Society to awaken the attention 

 to this subject, in the hope of uicreasing their 

 means of improving and embellishing this inter- 

 ■esting spot. 



For this purpose the Connnittee of the Hor- 

 cultural Society, who are charged with the manage- 

 ment of this property, liave issued a circular invit- 

 ing the public attention to it, to which they have 

 subjoined a list of the present projirietors of lots, 

 and of lots unsold, with the price and terms of sale. 

 Copies of this publication may be had at the Cou- 

 rier Office. 



The price of a lot, containing .300 squarelfeet, 

 with liberty to use one foot in width on each 

 boundary, for the erection of a wall or fence, is 

 sixty dollars. 



Any lot already laid out and unsold may be 

 taken by a subscriber or purchaser, and he who 

 first reports his selection to the Secretary of the 

 Garden and Cemetery Committee, will be entitled 

 to the preference. 



A new lot will be surveyed and laid out for any 

 subscriber, on his paying the additional sum of 

 ten dollars. , 



A sufficient number of lots will be surveyed to 

 supply all the subscribers, and the right of select- 

 ing from them will be sold at auction in .une 

 next. 



A lot is laid out in Cypress Avenue, 30 ly 60 

 feet, and is now being enclosed by an iron faiee, 

 in which single interments may be made on pay- 

 ment often dollars. 



Oliver B.Alexander, Undertaker, has clnrge 

 of the receiving tomb, imder Park Street CInich, 

 and also of that at Mount Auburn. He masf be 

 found at the house in rear of St. Paul's Chtfch. 

 Mr. L. Lyon, sexton of the Episcopal Churcl at 

 Cambridge, is also engaged by the Societv. 



an (1 occasionally watered. In a month the plants 

 will appear, and in July should he transplanted 

 u ito the beds of the same earth, in open airy situ- 

 ation, at six inches distance, and their loft to 

 '.lower. When in flower, the fijiest kinds should 

 be marked, and all the layers that can be, should, 

 during the time of flowering, be laid down from 

 them ; these will have taken root by the end of 

 August, and are then to be taken off and planted 



out in ])ots in pairs. — E. Rudge, Esq. F. S. S. 



Lou. Card. Mag. 



TOBACCO. 



A Correspondent who has given up the use 

 of Tobacco, gives the following as some of the 

 results : 



1. I am now satisfied that it was a positive 

 injury to my health. 



i. I can now employ the money which I for- 

 merly spent for tobacco, to serve some better pur- 

 pose. 



3. I feel as well as I formerly did with the aid 

 of tobacco, and seven times better. 



4. I can reprove a drimkard or a lover of rum 

 with a better face, for he would formerly turn 

 upon me and say, " you use tobacco, and what is 

 the difference ? " 



5. I can sit in a parlour without jumping up 

 and running to the door, window, fire place, or 

 spit box, and shooting my head forward like a 

 jack-knife, to dispose of saliva. 



6. I can pass by any person without disturbmg 

 his olfactories with my breath. 



7. I feel perfectly unfettered, and have no 

 hankering after tobacco ; though it was several 

 weeks before my appetite was completely changed. 

 There is no question that it is very difficult to quit 

 — but " victory is joyful. " 



8. My teeth are as sound as ever. 



9. My mind is more clear and active then 

 when under the influence of tobacco. — Journal of 

 Humanity. 



163 



scure its lustre, which, poetical description apart, 

 (said Byron,) in sober prose means, that good hu- 

 mored smiles ought to be ready to chase away the 

 expression of pcnsiveness or care that sentiment or 

 earthly ill calls forlh. Women were meant to bd 

 the exciters of all that is finest in our natures and 

 the soothers of all that is turbulent and harsh.' Of 

 what use, then, can a handsome automaton be 

 after one has got accpiainted with a face that 

 knows no change, though it causes many.' This 

 is a style of looks I could not bear the sight of for 

 a week, and yet, such are the looks that pass in 

 society for pretty, handsome, and beautiful. 



CUI-TURE OF THE CARNATION. 



The flowers are jiropagated either by see< or 

 by layers ; the first is the method for raising lew 

 flowers ; the other is tlie way to preserve ind 

 multiply those of former years. To raise tlem 

 from seed; that from the best double flowers 

 should be selected, which will produce the 

 strongest plants, and should be sown in AptI in 

 pots or boxes of fresh light earth, mixed vith 

 rotten cow manure, exjjosed to the morning yn 



From the Boston Traveller. 

 PEMAI,E INDUSTRY. 



One of the most ingenious fabrics we have for 

 a long time examined is a silk bed coveruig, the 

 manufacture of Mrs. Thomas Lilley of this city, 

 iWhich received the premium at the late Brighton 

 Fair. It is made of pieces so small that 5684 were 

 .required to give it sufficient size, exclusive of the 

 border. Mrs. L. sewed together and (juilted the 

 whole in about five months, besides managing the 

 domestic concerns of a pretty large family without 

 any aid. There was but a single needle used in 

 the work, eleven spools of cotton thread, and thirty- 

 three skehis of basting cotton. The cost of silk 

 and other trinnniugs, $8 50. 



POWrER OF FIRE. 



A BUSHEL of coals properly consumed will raise 

 seventy millions of ])ounds weight a foot high. 

 This is the average effect of a steam engine now 

 working in Cornwall. The ascent of INIount Blanc 

 from the valley of Chamouni is considered as the 

 most toilsome feat that a strong man can execute 

 in two days. The combustion of two pounds of 

 coal would place him on the summit. The Menai 

 Bridge consists of a mass of iron, not less than 

 fom- millions of pounds in weight, suspended at a 

 medium height of 120 feet above the sea. The 

 consumption of seven bushels of coal would suffice 

 to raise it to the place where it hangs. The great 

 pyramid of Egypt is composed of granite. It is 

 700 feet in the side of its base, and 500 in per- 

 pendicular height, and stands on eleven acres of 

 ground. Its weight is, therefore, 12,780 millions 

 of poiuids, at a medium height of 125 feet ; con- 

 sequently it would be raised by the effort of about 

 630 chaldrons of coal, a quantity consumed in 

 some foundries in a week. The annual consump- 

 tion of coal iu London is estimated at 1,500,000 

 chaldrons. The eflbrt of this quantity would raise 

 a cubical block of marble, 2,200 feet in the side, 

 through a space equal to its own height, or to pile 

 one such mountain upon another. The Monte 

 Nuovo, near Pozzuoli, which was erupted in a 

 single night by volcanic fire, might have been 

 raised by such an effort from a depth of about eight 

 miles. 



BYRON'S OPINION OP BEAUTY. 



I DO not talk of mere beauty (continued Byron) 

 of feature or conqjiexion, but of exjiression, tliat 

 looking out of the soid through the eyes, which 

 in my ojnnion, constitutes true beauty. Women 

 have been pointed out to me as beautiful, who 

 never could have interested my feelings from their 

 want of countenance, or expression, which means 

 countenance ; and others, who were little remark- 

 ed, have struck me as bemg captivating from the 

 force of countenance. A woman's fiice ought to 

 be like an \\m\ day — susceptible of change and 

 variety ; but sunshine should ■ often gleam over it 

 to replace the clouds and showers that may ob- 



EXPERIMENT IM HORTICULTURE. 



Mr. Knight, (florist and nursery-man, in the 

 King's Road, Chelsea,) made the following suc- 

 cessful ex])eriment on a mulberry tree, which, 

 except one very large branch, was either dead or 

 decaying. When the sap had ascended, he bark- 

 ed the branch completely round near its junction 

 with the trunk of the tree, and having filled three 

 sacks with mould, he tied them round that part of 

 the branch which had been barked, and by means 

 of one or two old wartering pots, which were kept 

 filled with water, and i)laced over the sacks, from 

 which the water gradually distilled, the mold in 

 the sacks was sufficiently moistened for his pur- 

 pose. Towards the end of the year, he examined 

 the sacks, and found them filled with numerous 

 small fibrous roots, which the sap, having no 

 longer the bark for its conductor into the main 

 roots of the tree, had thus expanded itself in throw- 

 ing out. A hole having been prepared near the 

 spot, the branch was sa«ii off below the sacks 

 and jilanted with them, the branch being projiped 

 securely. The next summer it flourished and 

 bore fruit, and is still in a thriving state. Jesses' 

 Gleanings in Natural History, page 145, extracted 

 t'y A Constant Readee. 



