REPORT 



LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS AND SUPERINTENDENTS. 



To the Brooklyn Park Commissioners. 



Gentlemen : We lay before you our usual report for the year 

 upon matters of design, construction and superintendence. 



In the work laid out during the year, no essential deviation from 

 the original design has been made, though certain details of impor- 

 tance have been introduced, which will be referred to below. The 

 conditions which had previously prevented work upon the west side 

 of the ground having been removed, the northern part of the park 

 has been finished, with the exception of a little planting, and this 

 portion of the design will next spring, for the first time, be compre- 

 hensively exhibited upon the ground. The main drive on the west 

 side is complete from the entrance to the Lookout Hill, where it 

 meets the Nethermead extension of the east drive, and the public has 

 in use five miles of thoroughly constructed carriage-way. A corre- 

 sponding extent of the surface has been worked over, and a large 

 part of it now realizes the design, so far as it can be made to do so 

 by the completion of the mere constructive work. 



There are in use, also, five miles of graveled or concrete walk, 

 and two hundred acres of woodland, shrubbery and open meadow 

 surface. The construction of the park as designed is complete from 

 end to end, east of a line drawn through the middle of it, except at 

 two points, where there are deposits of clay and soil to be used else- 

 where. Work is more or less advanced on nine-tenths of the remain- 

 ing ground, and the larger part of it will be in suitable condition for 

 public use next summer. 



The most eventful occurrence of the year has been the completion 

 of the great well, and the water-works at its mouth. A very im- 

 portant part of our design depended, for complete success, upon the 

 practicability of obtaining a certain amount of water by this expe- 

 dient, and we should hardly have ventured to include so large an extent 

 of lake surface in our design without the encouragement of your pres- 



