REPORT 



LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS AND SUPERINTENDENTS. 



Brooklyn, January, 1872.. 

 To the Brooklyn Park Commissioners. 



Gentlemen : 



We lay before you our customary annual report upon matters 

 of design, construction and superintendence. 



The most important fact in the record of the year is that of the 

 greatly increased popularity of the park, and especially of the more 

 domestic elements of the design explained in our report of last year. 

 There has been more than double as much use of the ground as 

 there was two years ago, and a third more than one year ago, the 

 whole number of visits havinsr exceeded six millions, making an 

 average for every day, winter and summer, foul and fair weather 

 included, of over seventeen thousand. 



The greater part of this increase has been among those entering 

 on foot, but a considerably larger number of private carriages is 

 also observed. It is moreover noticed, that as people get to be 

 more familiar with the park, they stay in it a longer time, on an 

 average, at each visit. 



The only noticeable modification in the study of the general 

 plan of the park, which has been developed during the year, has 

 grown out of a change in its boundaries near the entrance from 

 Flatbush avenue, for the purpose of adapting them to an improve- 

 ment of the neighboring street system. A reconsideration of the 



