Mount Auburn Cemetery

Subject: Justifiable complaint about ivy

Hotel Humboldt - Roxbury - Mass, Nov. 26 - '88.

Mr. J. W. Lovering Sup^t.

I rec^d a communication from you a few days since in regard to "the Ivy", placed on Lot 3225, the past summer.

Was very much surprised, when you quote the gardener, as having stated that, the plant is not at all hardy & cannot be made to live out of doors.

Said plant has lived out of doors for the last six or eight years, by being,