REPORT 



LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS AND SUPERINTENDENTS. 



To the President of the Board of Commissioners of Prospect 

 Park, Brooklyn : 



Sir : On the 29th of May last we were appointed by your 

 Board Landscape Architects and Superintendents of the park, and 

 were requested to consider various portions of its design in detail 

 with reference to an early commencement of the work of con- 

 struction. 



On the 16th of June we were instructed to organize, as soon as 

 possible, with the sanction of the Executive Committee, a prac- 

 tical system of operations under which the work might be 

 proceeded with at suitable points during the remainder of the 

 season. 



The necessary preliminaries having been settled, a small body 

 of laborers was set at work on the 1st of July, since which 

 time the force has been engaged in developing such leading 

 features of the plan as it was practicable from time to time to 

 take up. 



Our preliminary study contemplated the addition to the park 

 domain of the track between Third and Fifteenth streets and Ninth 

 and Tenth avenues; but as this section was not included in the 

 enlargement provided for by legislative enactment last winter, the 

 satisfactory development of the plan on the ground has been some- 

 what interfered with. All the lines in the neighborhood of the 

 Litchfield property have' had to be stopped short, or so arranged 

 that they would apply to the scheme of roads as originally designed, 

 in case that ground should be acquired within a reasonable time, 

 and also admit, without readjustment, of adaptation to the present 



