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Department of Parks and Recreation Monthly Report, June 1893. See full description in Digital Collections

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June 1893 Dept Pub Parks Supt Report CF224-18

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Seattle June 1893 To the Honorable Board of Park Commissioners Gentlemen 2 the following report is briefly made concerning work and charge of the department for the month of June 1893 Kinnear Park has required a team work hauling plants manure and soil. the flower beds and border work of planting was continued. the extended cool season has retarded the proper development of plant life and thus greatly retarded the work's progress as well as the effect aimed at. The need of police protection to the park property is becoming more and more apparent, as nightly depredations are constantly upon the plants planted out. It is recommended that your Honorable Board draft a protective ordinance & submitted to the City Council for adoption, making the powers to arrest persons making depredation or tresspass, and detain said persons until an officer of the law can be summoned into whose charge of offense specifiedThe topographical study of Denny Park is hereby submitted for your inspection, criticism and order for the completion of the following necessary plans. Working Plan and its profiles. Planting Plan Finished Plan- detailed plan for structures pavillion pagoda rockwork - fountain drainage and irrigationg system. Also that the department be authorized to order manures to be properly delivered by the neighbors upon specified places for composting

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2 ready for use should the execution of the plan be ordered. City Park Inasmuch as your request for the disposal of this park was not approved and inasmuch as the greatly increasing and growing stock of the City nursery will require much additional room by the coming fall. it is imperative to add much ground room by clearing additional land upon said Park. It is therefor suggested that the department be authorized to clear portion of this park, so it shall be conducive to the needs of the nursery and also continue the proper and natural development of the Park improvement proper. No definite portion of this ground can be parted off of them. treated, as the natural growth of trees is much that with their retention for future park use, compells the selection of added nursery ground in such localities where the future lawns meadows driveways etc. of the park should naturaly be located. Clearing done in July August and part of September is more effectual in killing the undergrowth trees and roots than at any other portion ofthe year. The nursery has maintained its usual work both in the nursery proper and the propagating house. the European stock of coniferous and evergreen stock had been planted out and the detailed report referred to the City Councilor with reference to the amount of loss entailed in the transit from New York to Seattle cannot now be altered It is also reported that the nursery supply

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