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Department of Parks—Last year plans were made for a closer 
cooperation between the Garden and the Department of Parks. 
The Park Commissioner had specially suggested that the Garden 
might issue publications and news items concerning the plant life 
in the Parks of the City. 
During October and November we received our annual supply 
of leaves from Prospect Park (Mr. R. C. Jenkins, Borough Di- 
rector). This is in exchange for grass supplied, as usual, by the 
Garden during the summer for the Park Zoo. 
Among the gifts received last December were four loads of 
serpentine rock, given by Mr. Ernest Flagg of Dongan Hills, 
Staten Island. This rock was needed to provide special soil con- 
ditions in our Native Wild Flower Garden. This rock was deliv- 
ered by trucks of the Department of Parks, New York City, 
through the courtesy of the Park Commissioner, Mr. Robert 
Moses. 
Police Department. 
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The cooperation of the Police Department 
1 Precinet 74, Captain Daniel MeGlinchy, which has charge 
of the entire Garden inside the fence, has been most satisfactory 
and efficient, as has also the cooperation through Precinct 71, Cap- 
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tain John Mooney, having charge of Washington Avenue along the 
Garden frontage and our five entrances there, and through Pre- 
cinct 80, Captain Edward Miller, along the two Eastern Parkway 
gates and frontage. 
The need is constantly emphasized of adequate police surveil- 
lance, to insure proper conduct anc 
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conformity to the rules and 
regulations by the visiting public, and for service in emergencies. 
There have been three fires in the Garden during the year, for 
two of which it was necessary to call the Fire Department. On 
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April 20 a fire at the northwest corner of the Garden, near the 
north Flatbush Avenue gate killed about six shrubs, besides miscel- 
laneous damage. 
On May 15 it was found that during the preceding night a fire 
was started in the southwest corner of the woven-wood fence sur- 
rounding the Japanese Garden. This fire destroyed some twenty 
feet of fencing besides the damage to espalier shrubs growing on 
thetence: 
The third fire was discovered about eight o’clock on the night 
