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On the Lake in good weather are one Hamburg swan, six- 

 teen Egyptian geese, twenty-five white geese, a flock of 

 common ducks and a trio of prize Pekin ducks. It is much 

 to be regretted that efforts to increase the swan have proven 

 unsuccessful. Several parrots were given to the Park re- 

 cently, which will be placed on exhibition in the open air as 

 soon as the weather is suitable. 



The quadrupeds are a fine buffalo bull, a sacred Indian 

 cow, and a herd of four white fallow deer and six American 

 red deer. There are six young black and brown American 

 bears, arid one tiger cat. 



A fine herd of nineteen American elk are now on exhibi- 

 tion in the Park, through the courtesy of their owner, Philip 

 Leibinger, Esq., three of which will become the permanent 

 property of the Department. 



GREENHOUSES AND GARDENS. 



A large amount of work has been clone in this department 

 that has proven very satisfactory to the public, part of which 

 was the display of bulbous plants in the spring (about seventy 

 thousand.) The carpet bedding (taking over two hundred 

 and forty thousand plants), the cactus display, the new garden 

 on Breeze Hill, the chrysanthemum exhibition (which was 

 raised entirely in Prospect Park), and the display of tropical 

 and flowering plants now in the greenhouses have given 

 much pleasure to visitors. There is now belonging to 

 this Department one of the most valuable collections of cacti 

 and other plants in this country, which have been largely 

 acquired during the past year. 



The display of cactaceous plants, from its novelty and 

 strange beauty, attracted thousands of visitors, and it is 

 hoped that the collection will be maintained and increased in 

 the future. 



Eighty-five thousand six hundred and fifty-four Dutch 



