1834 Report on the Committee to Examine the Garden, 1831.034.010

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Report on the Committee to Examine the Garden, 1834 (page_0001)
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Report on the Committee to Examine the Garden, 1834 (page_0001)

The undersigned appointed a Committee to examine the Garden and Garden Pond at Mount Auburn, and to report what improvements can be made therein, in order to render the Garden productive and profitable - and also whether the sluice running under Indian Ridge shall be cleared out, have attended to the duty assigned them and beg leave to submit the following _ Report.

The attention of your committee was first occupied with the actual state of the Garden, as originally laid out into plots. - and to the character of the soil. _this, they find to be light, restly partly upon gravel, and partly upon a sandy subsoil, but growing deeper as you approach the public road. a considerable quantity of the clearings of the ponds have been added to it. and much of it is now, and nearly all of it may be made, suitable for the cultivation of trees, flowering shrubs, and the usual purposes

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Report on the Committee to Examine the Garden, 1834 (page_0002)
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of a garden. _ Several of the compartments have been used for the growth of annual flowering plants, serving to ornament the grounds when in bloom, but of no other value, and, of course, requiring an annual planting. _ It is recommended that some of these plats be filled with cuttings of Foreign and Native Grape Vines. - prunings of the proper varieties, sufficient for from 5. to 10,000 cuttings might at once be collected, and prepared for planting in the Spring as soon as the season will permit. _ In from two to three years these plants will be large enough for removal, and the present marketable value of such is in considerable quantities 25 cents each._

Other of the plats might be filled with cuttings of Scotch Goosberries, and the large growing kinds of Red and White Dutch Currants. _ the outlay and the expence of culture for these, the plats being already prepared for their reception, would be comparatively trifling, and the certainty of the identity of the sorts, grown in the garden

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Report on the Committee to Examine the Garden, 1834 (page_0003)
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at Mount Auburn, would be very likely to ensure a sale._ The margin or borders of the plats, it is recommended to have planted with fruit trees, perennial and biennial flowering plants, and Rose bushes; having regard to the kinds of the plants &c wanted for the uses of the Cemetery._ Pear trees being slow of growth, it would be desirable to obtain those of good size and thrifty, which it is presumed might be had, if not from the neighboring nurseries, from those upon Long Island, as well as Cherries, Plums &c &c. Apple Trees or are unsuitable for a garden, _these however, might be obtained from France or Holland, as Dwarfs on Paradise stocks, where, in the former Country particularly, they are said to be very cheap, and Maiden trees of this kind, as low as one franc each. _ Pears, worked upon Quince stocks, might be had in the same way, and a small importation of these it would be very desirable to obtain, and which might be effected for no very considerable sum. _ Dwarfs possess the merit of coming very soon

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Report on the Committee to Examine the Garden, 1834 (page_0004)
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into bearing, requiring but little space; neither do they much exhaust the soil, and if the kinds of fruit are found to be undesirable, may be at once changed by innoculation._ Neither would the trees and shrubs, wanted to be purchased here, require any great expenditure; the latter need only be had in small quantities of a kind, as they increase rapidly by offsets, and would very soon furnish not only the quantity wanted for the use of the Garden and Cemetery, but also a surplus for sale._

Your Committee have made an examination of all the grounds, with a view of ascertaining where the best land is located, and they have discovered a piece situated south of "Gerry Lane", comprising about an acre and a half, which appears to be as good as any there is, and which the gardner thinks is the best._This, it is recommended to have turned up with the plough, either this autumn, or in the spring, and reduced to good tilth by cultivating upon it a crop of vegetables, preparatory to making

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Report on the Committee to Examine the Garden, 1834 (page_0005)
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to making it a receptacle for seeds cuttings &c of all the fruit and ornamental trees, plants and shrubs required for the use of the Garden and Cemetery, instead of obtaining them by purchase, as well as with a view to a surplus for sale._ It will at once be perceived that some manure will be requisite to accomplish this, and there are upon the grounds some good materials for a compost; Large quantities of fallen leaves may be gathered in the forest, as well as the black mud taken from the ditches in the low lands, to these might be added what animal manure there is made on the place, with the addition of more to be purchased, if necessary, by these means a good pile of compost manure might annually be made in an economical way._

The Garden Pond seems to require no immediate alteration._ The small circular Pond north of the Cottage, requires to have a parcel of the clearings, which have been thrown upon the margin, taper out and the embankment sodded to a suitable depth.__

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