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Superintendents Report for December 1892 Copy CF224-12 Department Public Parks

Superintendents Report for December 1892 To the Honorable the Board of Park Commissioners

Gentleman The work of the department during the past month was as follows.

Kinnear Park.

This Park is being topographically surveyed including the adjoining avenues ready for the finished plans to be made. The ground around the rustic parachute is being prepared and shaped with its flower beds made ready for the permanent and transient planting next Spring. Other large beds have been added and made ready, having required 21 loads of cow manure, 11 loads of leaf mould, & 11 loads of clay. The walks of this park are not yet sufficiently graveled and are being thus supplied; 56 loads havingnow been used.

Denny Park

This ground was surveyed and its topography is being plotted ready for making the plans for its improvement

City Park

The new clearing required team and labor work in clearing the soil of roots stones etc. and working upon the fence. The topgraphical survey & detailed map of this ground needs to be taken before a plan can be formulated.

Park Nursery

This Department set 2500 cuttings. 3000 new seeds, transplanted 2000 seedlings, received the 62 thouand plants, and cared for them. The percentage of damage is very light in this stock. Considering the long journey & extra delays caused by snow blockades. This Department should now be supplied with the seeds necessary for temporary decorations in the parks, as well as supplied with the seedlings named in a list presented to your Board some months ago. If the Nursery Department is properly supplied, it is the department which will in a few years save thousands of dollars to the City in the purchase of trees.

Park Department Office.

During the past month 68 recorded plats were entered upon the large map. Additional plane table sheets prepared contoured and traced, besides the preparation of maps, plans, & profiles made to accompany Annual Report