Mount Auburn Cemetery

Subject: cost of myrtle grave, shrubs "Charge for planting myrtle 157.00" P. 260 in 1882

Seaver St. Roxbury July 6th _ 1882

To the Superintendent of Mt Auburn Cemetary-

I wished to ask the price for covering the graves with periwinkle? also to ask the Gardener to suggest some hardy Shrub for the outer corner of the border of Lot 1549. as the laurel planted there does not appear to flourish very well. We prefer ^flowering shrubs in our border to flowers - We have one Smoke bush, would another do well in that corner, or can the