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scilla, snowdrops, etc. Annual plantations 01 these bulbs will in 

 a few years fill the copses and meadows with spring flowers. 



The show of roses in the new Rosery was very satisfactory. 

 The cement and trap rock concrete basins were constructed as 

 designed, and planted with water lilies and other aquatic plants. 

 One of the basins was artificially heated for tropical water lilies, 

 including the Giant Lily of the Amazon {Victoria Regia). The 

 arrangement proved very attractive to the public. 



In the " Vale of Cashmere," adjoining the Rosery, the broken 

 asphalt walk was removed and one of brown paving brick sub- 

 stituted. 



In the floral department the display of Dutch bulbs last spring 

 was very good, although its existence was very short on account 

 of the extremely hot weather. Large quantities of these popular 

 bulbs have already been planted for next year's exhibition. 



The effects in tropical and carpet bedding were of the usual 

 high standard, while the hardy garden on Breeze Hill, always 

 interesting, charmed every one because of old memories it re- 

 called, or because of its everchanging attractiveness and beauty. 



A new pit or low greenhouse was added to the range of glass 

 for wintering succulent plants. New cement walks were laid in 

 the show houses and central conservatory, one of the show houses 

 being remodelled to serve as an exhibition house for orchids and 

 ferns. 



WORK ON THE PLAZA. 



The Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company and the Nassau 

 Railroad Company having by mutual consent moved their tracks 

 at the north end of the Plaza, an opportunity was afforded for 

 the extension of the north mound and the construction of a 

 Portland cement concrete sidewalk, fifteen feet in width, con- 

 necting Vanderbilt and Flatbush avenues. This sidewalk also 

 affords a landing platform for passengers from the trolley cars. 

 This point, being the crossing point of the two roads, has hither- 

 to been very dangerous and inconvenient for pedestrians, and the 

 improvement is therefore greatly appreciated. 



During last spring about four hundred spruce and pine trees 

 were planted on the mounds, which, with the addition of shrub 



