REPORT 



OF THE 



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 importance 

 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 comprehensively 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 corresponding 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 gravelled 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 elsewhere. Work 

 is more or less advanced on nine-tenths of the remaining 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 important 

 part of our design depended for complete success upon the practicability 

 of obtaining a certain amount of water by this expedient, and we should 



