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of this survey, among other things, is to define accutately the intermediate
spaces for the convenience of those Proprietors who may wish to
purchase them at the present fractional prices.

A number of quarter lots, measuring about 10 feet by 74, have been
this year laid out on Spruce Avenue, at the western side of the Cemetery.
The price of these small lots is at present $50.

A new edition, of 3,000 copies, of the Catalogue and By-Laws, has
been published and distributed to Proprietors, so far as their addresses
could be ascertained. It contains the names of 3,017 Proprietors.
A duplicate list of all interments since the beginning, has been prepared
by the Secretary, for security in case of the loss or destruction of one of
the copies.

Mr. Anthony Apple having resigned his place as Gardener to the
Cemetery, the Trustees have appointed Mr. William H. Spooner, Jr., as
his successor. His experience and character for punctuality and economy,
will make it for the interest of Proprietors to employ him to take care of
and embellish their lots. It is earnestly hoped that Proprietors will
confine their cultivation to flowers and shrubs, and that as few trees as
possible will be planted in the grounds. The dense and increasing
foliage of the forest already existing there, in many places excludes the
sun, and destroys the grass and the plants cultivated in its shade. Fir
trees and other ever-greens are particularly objectionable on this account,
and many of those ‘already existing will, at some future day, require to
be removed. The Superintendent, if requested, will remove without
expense objectionable trees from the lots of Proprietors.

By the Treasurer’s Report, it will be seen that the Permanent Fund,
instituted four years ago, for the future and perpetual support of the
Cemetery, already amounts to $20,040, besides which the balance in cash
and invested productive property remaining to the credit of the Corporation
is $29,315.89. Much of this, however, may be considered as
pledged to the extinguishing of existing contracts and future necessary
liabilities, some of which were noticed in the last year’s Report.

The present price of a common-sized lot in Mount Auburn is $150,
or fifty cents for a square foot, being two and a half times the original
price, which was $60 for a lot. This sum is less than the cost,
with interest, to original Proprietors. But there is still another consideration
which demonstrates the extreme cheapness of lots at their present
price. The number of Proprietors, by the Catalogue, but little exceeds
3,000. ‘The amount which has been expended during thirty years, for