(335) 
lease in case of sale; also the right to remove trees and shrub- 
bery, and gvass and frames from the front building; and the 
tenant was to preserve them till removed.” * 
In September, 1825, Dr. Hosack again applied for a lease, 
but the terms were not agreed on, ¢ and in April, 1826, the 
garden was let to David Barnett, a seedsman, for ten years, 
at $500 per annum, and taxes. Barnett paid no rent; but 
$118 was collected by a sale of his goods in 1827, and the 
lease was surrendered. t{ 
In the summer of 1828 Dr. Hosack, in behalf of the Horti- 
cultural society of which he was then president, applied for a 
lease of the grounds, again without success. In his inaugural 
address soon after, he commented with some severity on his 
failure, saying that 
“Tt was stated to the trustees that the society’s practical 
men would veszore the establishment to the condition in which 
1t was conveyed to the state.” 
But the trustees preferred a rental rather than a botanical 
garden, and private responsibility to that of an association. 
In October, 1828, two leases were executed to William 
Shaw for 21 years from the following May; one of 36 city 
lots on the block between 5oth Street and sist Street, and 
the other of the residue of the grounds, at the annual rent of 
$400, repairs and taxes on the whole, and also any assess- 
ments on the 36 lots.|| Shaw occupied and cultivated the 
grounds.J In 1833 the trustees remitted $100 per year from 
the rental for three years, upon Mr. Shaw’s petition showing 
that the premises when he took them were much more dilapi- 
dated than he supposed; that he had expended for repairs to 
dwelling-house, grounds and wall, over $5,000; that much 
of the ground was not tillable, being rocky beneath a thin 
* Trustees’ Min. Columbia Col., 3: 84. 
+ Min. Stand. Com., Sept. 22, 1825 
¢ Trustees’ Min., 3 : 173, 187, 248 ; “Min. Stand. Com., Oct. 26, 1827. 
|| Treas. Rept. Columbia Col., 1850; Trustees’ Min., 4: 336; 3 : 248. 
{Ibid., 3: 443, 450; Min. Stand. Com., Aug. 28. 
