DEPARTMENT OF PARKS. 95 



'Office of General Superintendent, 



PROSPECT PARK. 



Brooklyn, January 1, 1888. 

 To the Brooklyn Park Commissioners. 

 Gentlemen : 



The work during the past year upon the several parks, park- 

 ways, &c, under the jurisdiction of the Brooklyn Park Com- 

 missioners, has been similar to that performed in previous 

 years, save on a larger scale. 



The report of the Committee, as elsewhere presented, covers 

 so exhaustively all items of improvement, etc., that any reca- 

 pitulation of them on my part is unnecessary. 



I submit herewith the bookkeeper's statement, showing how 

 the money was spent in labor and material. 



Also the report of the Captain of Police. 



The usual meteorological report is also submitted. 



As the life of the park is its trees, shrubs and plants, and 

 the public is justly mindful of them, I think it would be well 

 to describe some of them. 



It would require too much space to enumerate all the species 

 of trees, shrubs and vines on the park, as there is no catalogue 

 in print containing the number and variety which may be 

 found there. 



The following description of some of the most beautiful and 

 rare trees, shrubs, &c, of both native and foreign origin, and 

 their general locality in the park, may be of some interest. 



Trees of Prospect Park. 



Commencing with the deciduous, there are the quercus, or 

 oaks — such as the quercus nigra, or black oak; quercus fasti- 

 giata, or pyramidal oak ; quercus alba, or white oak ; quercus 

 coccinea, or scarlet oak; quercus robinia, or English oak ; and 

 many others. These may all be found in the vicinity of the 

 deer paddock and battle-pass and other portions of the park. 



