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The hay on all the undeveloped parts of the tract was cut 
during the summer and stacked in barracks near the stable, 
sufficient being obtained in this way for fodder for the Gar- 
den horses. This quantity will become less from year to 
year, as the area of finished lawns increases. The woodlands 
have been carefully patrolled during dry weather, as a pre- 
caution against forest fires. A few trees have died and been 
taken down, and a considerable number were blown over 
during two violent gales. Unsightly and partly diseased 
trees, and those which were crowding and therefore spoiling 
better specimens, have been removed, over parts of the area, 
and considerable pruning has been accomplished. 
The police patrol has been somewhat increased during the 
year, but it has been found necessary to supplement this on 
Sundays and holidays, and at times during the afternoons, by 
guards selected from our own employees. This has pre- 
vented any serious damage being done to the plantations or 
woodlands by visitors, in spite of the greatly increased num- 
ber of persons coming to the Garden, but it will evidently 
soon be necessary to station a permanent guard at at least 
three of the entrances. 
The scattering of rubbish by visitors has apparently not 
been much further reduced than it was last year, and it has 
been found necessary to detail a man for most of his time 
during the summer and autumn to clean up the litter. Per- 
haps the only way to entirely stop this nuisance would be 
to prevent visitors bringing parcels of any kind within the 
grounds, as is done at many European parks and gardens, 
and was resorted to during the last year by the Commissioner 
of Parks of Brooklyn, but in the absence of a wall or fence 
around the Garden, and in the present impossibility of main- 
taining guards at all the entrances, we are not yet in a posi- 
tion to enforce such restriction. 
Considerable complaint has been made by visitors of their 
annoyance by the drivers of cabs and hacks soliciting 
patronage at the entrances and at other points on the drive- 
ways. Several arrests for this offence were made by the 
