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Symphoria racemosa, snow berry, and glomerata or Indian 

 currant, are especially adapted to covering slopes for the pur- 

 pose of preventing washes, by their thick growth and fibrous 

 roots covering the ground. 



Herbaceous paconies fragrans, a deep crimson flower and 

 very sweet; l'oriflamme, a cherry red flower ; reine des roses, 

 a deep rosy lilac ; variegated plemissama, a rose pink and 

 very sweet scented. 



Opposite Litchfield mansion there is a fine bed of whittligii, 

 bearing white ventre light yellow clusters, and very fragrant. 



Also, worked lindens, European and double horse chestnuts, 

 paulonia imperialis, poplus alia, robina viccosa, flowering- 

 acacia and many others. 



These, with many other varieties of trees and flowering- 

 shrubs and plants to be found upon the park, afford ample 

 means and opportunity to those interested in dendrological 

 study. Permits for such purposes are given by the superin- 

 tendent to those who apply personally. Such permits are 

 issued by the authority and liberality of the Park Commis- 

 sioners to teachers of botanical classes and other responsible 

 persons who have a taste for such studies. There is no finer 

 field in this State for study. 



The different varieties of trees and shrubs contained in the 

 park, from not having received proper attention in past years, 

 have entirely overgrown a large portion of its area. This 

 overgrowth has necessitated an immense amount of trimming, 

 pruning and removing. This original planting of the planta- 

 tions was about three times as much as it should have been, 

 the intention being gradually to cut away the inferior trees 

 and shrubs, allowing the fittest to remain. This, however, was 

 entirely neglected. The result is that by such close proximity, 

 arising from overstocking, the trees have not reached a normal 

 state of development. Last Winter, around the large lake, 750 

 two horse loads of this overgrowth were removed. This 

 trimming and pruning of the park has been of necessity con- 

 tinued almost incessantly for the past eighteen months. And 

 yet any one unfamiliar with the previous condition of the park, 

 would never know that any extended pruning has been done. 



