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rolled and packed, x^l^ced thereon from Bedford Avenue 

 to the Plaza. 



About six thousand cubic yards of Roa Hook Gravel 

 w^ere used during tlie summer for Prospect Park drives, 

 Eastern Parkway and chemical tar and gravel walks, in- 

 dependent of gravel brought from the gravel-pits of the 

 Department. 



WASHINGTON PARK (FORT GREENE). 



The wliole of the shrubbery at Washington Park had 

 the same treatment in pruning as Prospect Park, together 

 with the trees and the care of the lawns. The disinte- 

 grated tar walks of the Park were resurfaced with Trinidad 

 asphalt. The cottage was also altered, with the water service 

 imj)roved, and all of the rooms heated with hot air from a 

 J. L. Mott ' Comet ' 36 inch furnace. A new music stand 

 was also erected. 



TOMPKINS PARK. 



Tompkins Park lawns and flower-beds had the usual care, 

 and the shrubbery was pruned and inside wire fences put 

 in proper order. A new iron railing has been put all 

 around the Park on a stone base and concrete foundation. 

 The whole of the sidewalks have been laid with kosmo- 

 crete pavement, and the Park walks extended out to the 

 sidewalks. The extension to the Park inside to be planted 

 with shrubs. 



WINTHROP PARK. 



The work of developing this Pailv has been in progress 

 during the year, in accordance with designs adopted for 

 its imiDrovenient by the Department. 



The entire area has been worked over, and it is intended 



