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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1869
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81 Your Committee recommend the construction of the barn and gardener's house estimated for in the report to which they have referred above, and that there shall be no permanent tree planting except the 3,000 trees purchased from Lawyer—an osage hedge around the grounds and the timber belts provided for in the November report. These belts will require the following trees, to-wit: 330 European Larch. 450 Norway Spruce j 330 White Ash. 165 Silver Maple. 830 Austrian Pine. 165 White Pine. 250 Arbor Vitas. 210 Green Ash. 165 Red Cedar. 250 Blue Ash, Of these, the evergreens should be %\ feet high and the deciduous trees 3 to 6 feet high. The estimated cost of these is $534 60. The Committee think that for all plantings except those indicated above, small trees should be purchased, as far as the means will allow, and cultivated in nursery for one or more years. Your Committee recommend the following appropriations, viz : Trees for timber belts Other trees, nuts, seeds and plants Orchard, including the two purchased from Lawver Hedge plants Gardener's house Barn and out buildings 1 Span horses 1 Wagon and harness Tile draining orchard. Labor one year $600 1,000 1 9 000 18 600 2,000 300 150 2,000 1,332 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ... $10,000 00 Your Committee ask the adoption of the following resolutions ; 1. Resolved, That the plan for dividing and planting the grounds to be devoted to horticulture, devised and recommended by the last November report of this Committee, be adopted, subject to such modifications and amendments in tke details as may hereafter, upon the further survey of the grounds, be deemed necessary. 2. Resolved, That until a Professor of Horticulture shall be appointed, the execution of the plan indicated above shall be under the general supervision and control of the Professor of Agriculture, who shall have power to make the necessary contract for under-draining the land—to employ competent laborers for planting the orchards, nursery, hedge and timber belts, and to receive and recommend to the Executive Committee plans for the barn, out-buildings and gardener's house, and upon the approval of such plans the said Professor of Agriculture shall proceed to have said buildings erected. 3. Resolved, That Samuel Edwards and 0. B. Galusha are he r X.y authorized to purchase the trees, seeds and nursery stock estimated for in the foregoing report* of —**n
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