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born's excellent papers on our indigenous trees we hope also 

 to continue in the present volume. 



CEMETERIES, 



It is gratifying to see such an increasing interest felt in 

 the establishment of cemeteries. So general have they be- 

 come, that, while fifteen years ago only those of Laurel Hill 

 and Mount Auburn were laid out, now many of the principal 

 cities and towns throughout the country possess such burial 

 places, or are about appropriating suitable lots of ground for 

 that object. The city of Boston, at last awakened to the im- 

 portance of the subject, and with a view to prevent further 

 interments within the city, is about purchasing a spot of 

 ground, in some of the neighboring towns, suitable for the 

 purpose of a cemetery, and a committee have already reported 

 upon the matter. Roxbury, with Gen. Dearborn at the head 

 of the city government, has set a noble example for other 

 towns ; and the Forest Hills Cemetery, projected by Gen. 

 Dearborn, and laid out under his care, redounds to his credit 

 even more than Mount Auburn, which owes all but what 

 nature gave it, to his taste and judgment as a landscape 

 artist. 



In Cincinnati, the Spring Grove Cemetery has been greatly 

 improved since it was first opened, a year ago ; and, from a 

 report which has been sent us by our correspondent, Mr. 

 Ernst, appears in a flourishing condition. We refer to a 

 short notice of it, by Mr. Ernst, accompanied with some fit- 

 ting remarks on the establishment of cemeteries, in a future 

 page. 



It only remains for us to urge upon the proprietors of cem- 

 eteries the importance of planting trees adapted to such 

 places. There is mnch difference in their appropriateness for 

 such situations ; and we intend to give a list of such as, from 

 the associations connected with them, — ■their beauty, size, 

 and other characteristics, — are best suited for burial-grounds. 

 Almost every proprietor of a lot has a desire to grade and 

 ornament it with trees and shrubs ; but from the want of a 

 little reflection, and without any knowledge of what is most 



