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proceed with the erection from year to
year until the whole is completed accor
ding to the state of the funds. They also
suggest that on the three other sides it is

Hedge

expedient to plant a ^^living hedge fence
of buckthorn or some other suitable
shrub on the inside of the present fence;
believing that in a few years in this
way a very handsome & permanent
hedge may be thus obtained at a
comparitively trifling expense.

Purchase of Land

Third. The com^ee also recommend
the purchase, if it can be obtained
upon reasonable terms of ten or twelve
acres of land upon the western and
southern side of the grounds at
Mount Auburn continguous to the
present fence as a suitable enlarge-
ment of the premises & also as giving a
better permanent boundary. Upon
traversing the land they found it
well suited to the purposes of the
Cemetery.

New Lots.

Fourth. The com^ee also recommended
the adoption of the recent plan of
Waldo Higginson laying out the lots
at the South Eastern part of Mount
Auburn & to have a suitable number
of trees planted & seeds sown there
to insure a good growth of ^^forest trees in the