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The picturesque pocket companion, and visitor's guide, through Mount Auburn, Appendix I: General Dearborn's Report. (search)
are and beautiful species; the best process of rearing and propagating them, by seeds, scions, buds, suckers, layers, and cuttings;--the most successful methods of insuring perfect and abundant crops, as well as satisfactory results in all the branches of useful and ornamental planting, appertaining to Horticulture. Compartments are to be assigned for the particular cultivation of Fruit Trees, Timber Trees, Ornamental Trees and Shrubs, Esculent Vegetables, Flowers, and for the location of Green-Houses, Stoves, Vineries, Orangeries, and Hot-Beds. For the accommodation of the Garden of Experiment and Cemetery, at least seventy acres of land are deemed necessary; and in making the selection of a site, it was very important that from forty to fifty acres should be well or partially covered with forest-trees and shrubs, which could be appropriated for the latter establishment; that it should present all possible varieties of soil, common in the vicinity of Boston ;--be diversified by
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ty in 1829, commenced the study of divinity at Andover, spent two years at the University of Edinburg, and on the continent of Europe, in the completion of his Studies. He returned home, but a fever closed his life in three months afterwards. The writer of the article on Mount Auburn (already cited) in the Quarterly Observer, Generally attributed (there can be no impropriety in saying) to the Rev. Mr. Adams, of the Essex Street Church, in Boston, by the influence of whose predecessor, Mr. Green, we may here mention, the professional career of young McLellan was in no small measure directed. alludes to him in these feeling terms:-- There is one at rest in his tomb in this enclosure, who was known to a large circle of friends, and whose bright prospects were early shut in by death. Having enjoyed every advantage for the improvement of his mind, and of preparation for future usefulness by visiting foreign lands, he returned to the bosom of his family, to die. He came forth as
The picturesque pocket companion, and visitor's guide, through Mount Auburn, Miscellanies. (search)
nd the fair, Equal in death, were undistinguished there. Yet not a hillock mouldered near that spot, By one dishonored, or by all forgot. To some warm heart the poorest dust was near, From some kind eye the meanest claimed a tear. And oft the living, by affection led, Were wont to walk in spirit with their dead, Where no dark cypress cast a doleful gloom, No blighting yew shed poison o'er the tomb, But white and red, with intermingling flowers, The graves looked beautiful in sun and showers. Green myrtles fenced them, and beyond that bound Ran the clear rill, with ever-murmuring sound. 'T was not a scene for grief to nourish care,-- It breathed of hope, it moved the heart to prayer. Yes, and it fills us with hope, it moves us to prayer, even to think of such a spot. What quietness, what beauty of visible nature, what harmony of rural sounds, what soothing emblems, in a word, of precious and glorious spiritual speculations, and what stirring yet soothing monitors to christian phil