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Report Supt Parks Sept 1892 CF224-10

Department of Public Parks Superintendant's Report for Sep 1892

To The Honorable the Board of Park. Commissioners -

Gentlemen -

The Parks under your management have received the care and maintainance required. Thirteen rustic seats of new designs have been added to Kinear Park and still more are needed. This Park also requires a large amount of permanent planting of shrubs and trees, many of suitable size may be obtained from our native stuff, though a change of more affective material is very desirable. It is recommended that the department be authorized to make topographical surveys of the several Parks areas now under your control

and that plans for their improvement be prepared and durring the winter season - also furnishing duplicate plans for record in the City Clerks office as required by Law. The season to secure native deciduous shrubs and trees is now at hand and special effort should be made to obtain a good stock of Rhododendrons. Your authorization is needed to this end;

In conformity with your instruction to clear three acres of ground in the City Park for temporary nursery purpose was duly undertaken. It was deemed advisable however not to clear said ground in one body, but to select approximately that area out of about five acres, selecting and retaining such groups of trees undergrowth etc. so as to develope natural landscape affects, thus simultaneously anticipate the future improvement of

the Park as such, fulfilling the wish approved in a former report. This enlarged area of ground for the nursery as well as the probable early extension of such forestry treatment of this tract as also its needful protection from destructive cattle and the vandalism of hunters for decorative bushes, it becomes important that said tract should be fenced without delay. The cost for the material for said fence is about $115.00 The clearing has disclosed many stumps which are being blown out.

The nursery is adding to its stock both by seeds and cuttings, not a few of which are obtained through the kindness of interested cityzens with whom exchanges are thus made possible. The lack of showy and attractive plants of a permanent nature will make the

public grounds extremely barren of colloring during the following year, unless supplied for the time with other decorative materials which can only be supplied from more tender and greenhouse stock. Preparations are also being made to start a good supply of perennials in the green house

Survey. The topographical detail survey has now been completed from the S E Park peninsula extending southward to the middle of section 34 on the Lake Washington shore. It is also extended from Madison Street following Union Bay as far as Ravana Park. The Transit meander and sheer lines are completed through Ravana Park embracing the Green Lake system through the Woodland Park, thence to Lake Union covering the following distances and areas