Public City Park, 

 of a highly ornate and sophisticated kind, comprising 

 ornamental trees anil shrubs, hand-mown lawns, 

 "bedding-out," statues, pools, and so on. Area 

 24 acres. 

 Maintenance costs 



Labor per acre per year $906.40 



Supplies and teaming per acre per year . . . 154.00 



$1,060.40 

 Rate per year = 1.272 acres per man. 



Public Herbaceous Garden 



Area 4 acres, about half of which is lawn. 



Maintenance costs 



Labor per acre per year $1,060.00 



Supplies and teaming per acre per year . . . 375-oo 



Rate per year = 1.087 acres per man. 



$1,435.00 



Class II 



In this class the labor upkeep for the year consists of the 

 equivalent of one man per year for 2-6 acres. It comprises such 

 areas as described under (d) on page 7, examples being the 

 Cherry Garden, Fruticetum, and perhaps the lawn areas around 

 the Museum. There are about 75 acres of this class in the 

 Garden. 



A Suburban Place. Design rather complex, outline of lawn very irregular. 



Area 1.80 acres, composed as follows: 



Buildings 18 acres 



Roads and yards 13 



Garden (mostly vegetable) 13 



Lawn 50 



Balance (trees and shrubbery with a few paths 



and herbaceous beds) 86 



Maintenance costs 



Labor per acre per year $512.00 



Supplies and teaming per acre per year . . . 127.22 



$639.22 

 Rate per year = iyi acres per man. 



Shrubbery and Lawns on a Suburban Place 

 Area, 30 acres. 



Rate per year = 4.09 acres per man. 

 (A little teaming extra.) 



Quasi-Suburban Country Place, excluding farm lands, 

 including considerable macadam road about 16' wide, 

 mostly grass-bordered. 



