4 CONTENTS. 



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City Park, 59 



Carroll Park, 61 



East Side Lands, ........... 61 



The Concourse at Cone3 r Island, ........ 67 



The Parks of Brooklyn and their bearing upon the future development of 



the City, . ' 78 



Table of Comparisons of Park Acreage, ...... 84 



Finaucial Statement for the year 1887, ...... 90-94 



Superintendent Hamilton's report (on), ..... 95 



Trees of Prospect Park, .......... 95 



Climbing Plants, 104 



House Plants, 105 



Flowering Shrubs, 100 



Chief Clerk's Statement of Appropriations and Expenditures, 110 



Paymaster's Statement, . . . . . . . Ill 



Salaries, 1887, 112 



Recapitulation— Services, . . .... 112 



Statement of Bills paid by Brooklyn Park Commissioners, . 113 



Annual Report of Police Force. 1887, ....... 115 



Meteorological Observations, ........ 119 



illustrations. 



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Headquarters of the Park Department (Litchfield Mansion), . . 7 



Sullivan Heights Picnic Wood, ... .... 18 



Lite i. field Picnic Grove, ......... 24 



Music Pagoda, 29 



Willinck Entrance Shelter, 37 



Nether-Mead Arches, .......... 43 



Scenery on large lake, ......... 50 



Park Games, ............ 53 



View at Pedestrian Concourse, ........ 78 



Park Trees, 99 



Map of Prospect Park (fly leaf). 



