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engineer, Mr. Frank J. Lynch. It was completed during 1935 by 
laborers under the Civil Works Administration (CWA), suc- 
ceeded by Works Progress Administration (WPA). The founda- 
tional planting was done during the spring of 1935 by our own 
men under Mr. Caparn’s supervision. The central feature of the 
Horticultural Section is the Long Green, 60 feet wide and more 
than 400 feet long from north to south. At each end of the Long 
Green are structures which constitute 
The Dean Clay Osborne Memorial 
This Memorial was made possible by a gift of $30,000 from 
Mrs. Sade Elizabeth one to provide a memorial to her late 
husband, Dean Clay Osborne. The gift, reported to the Trustees 
at their meeting on October 13, 1938, was subsequently increased 
to $32,208.44. The memorial, designed by Mr. Caparn (John 
Theodore Haneman, architect, associate), was formally presented 
on the afternoon of April 19, 1939, the wedding anniversary date 
of Mr. and Mrs. Osborne. It consists of two sets of features, 
as follows: 
Those at the south end include a semicircular plaza paved with 
bluestone flagging. At the south periphery of this plaza are two 
curved seats, with “coupled” columns at their inner or adjacent 
ends. These columns, 14 feet high, are similar to those in the 
Boboli Gardens, Florence. Near the north edge of the plaza is 
a water basin 17 feet 6 inches in diameter, containing a fountain 
with pedestal and bowl. The contractor is authority for the state- 
ment that the stone (measuring 11 feet 3 inches by 8 feet 10 inches ) 
was carved was the widest piece 
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from which the fountain bow 
of Indiana limestone ever brought to New York City. 
The features at the north end also comprise a plaza, similar to 
that at the south end, with curved seats at the north edge. The 
monolithic dies at the inner ends of the seats carry beautifully 
carved urns. At the outer end of each seat is a fluted column 35 
feet high. At the base of the fluted shafts are panels with carved 
leaves of the Ginkgo or “ Maidenhair” tree, designed by Mr. 
Caparn. So far as we can ascertain, this is the first time the 
Ginkgo has been employed as a motif in this position, so commonly 
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