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between the parties; he is also to keep for sale
at some convenient place designated by the
Trustees shrubs, trees & flowers, and be ready
to furnish, plant or cultivate the same at his
own expense and at such price and remuneration
as may be agreed on with the purchasers. This
plan which costs nothing to the Corporation has been found
to work well in other cemeteries where it has been tried.

The Trustees have appointed to this office
Mr Anthony Apple, anable &experience gardener,
and have leased to him a piece of ground nearly
opposite the gate, on which he has erexted a conservatory
and commenced a garden. The destruction of his first
green house by fire ^{and the conseuent expense of rebuilding it} entitles him to the charitable consideration
of those who may be likely to need his services.

The experiment made last year of transplanting
some dozens of large trees in the neighbourhood of the gate,
has proved eminently successful, not oen of those having
been lost or injured by the operation. A ^somewhatsimilar alteration
is now in progress on the westerly side of the gate

By the liberality of one of the proprietors,
the sum of one thousand dollars has been expended
in grading, stoning and otherwise improving the border
of Meadow pond. An open space of two thousand
square feet, inclosing the fountain at the head of the
pond, is to be forever kept open for ornamental
purposes. It is hoped that other proprietors may be
induced to follow so praiseworth an example. The
Trustees have voted to devote^appropriate to a similar repair of