1880-01 Annual Report of the Trustees of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, Together with the Reports of the Treasurer and Superintendent. January, 1880.

IRs Je dae Orlee Ih 2

THERE is little in the doings of the past year which is deserving of particular mention. The sales, though moderate, have been sufficient to meet all ordinary requirements, though not large enough to warrant any extended improvements.

The efforts of the Superintendent have been mainly directed to keeping the avenues, paths, and grounds in good order, to the planting of new trees, the judicious pruning of those of larger growth, - and to the setting out of shrubbery in unoccupied and available spaces. His report shows that much attention has been paid, during the past as well as several previous years, to the paving and repaving of gutters. Arrangements have been made, by means of numerous catch-basins, to intercept and carry off the surface-water after heavy rains, thus preventing the washing out of the avenues. The alignment, grading, and curves of the avenues and paths have also been much improved.

The removals of iron fences have been much larger during the past : than during any previous year. The Superintendent reports sixtyeight removals. This movement appears to have commenced in the year 1871, when the removal of iron fences first began to be reported. In that year eight were erected and twelve removed. In 1875 none were reported as erected, while eleven were removed. The movement continued at about the same rate until the year 1878. In that year twenty-one were removed, and the number has now swelled for the year 1879, as previously stated, to sixty-eight.

These removals are probably owing partly to a change of taste on the part of proprietors, who are attracted by the openness and neatness of the landscape Jawn method of laying out the grounds, and