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 improve-
ments 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