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bulbs and lilies have been planted, to flower during the 

 coming season. 



A new Greenhouse, eighty-five by thirty-five feet, with an 

 addition connecting it with the tauk house on the west side, 

 has been built, and at once became the resort of great num- 

 bers of our flower and plant loving people, who come to enjoy 

 the fine display within. 



MECHANICAL AND ARTIFICERS' WORK. 



AVith the exception of some needed repairs to the steam 

 engines and iron castings that were required, all work of this 

 character has been done in the workshops of this Depart- 

 ment, viz. : 



Five hundred new iron tree-boxes for protecting trees in 

 parks and parkways ; 



Two new road sprinklers built, and sixteen old ones re- 

 paired and kept in order; 



One new spring truck ; 



One new dirt and leaf truck ; 



Four new rustic police boxes ; 



One new rustic shelter (umbrella) on Breeze Hill ; 



Rebuilt and thatched shelter at Old Deer Paddock ; 



New bridge built over Coney Island Creek, 150 feet wide 

 and 40 feet span, requiring about eighty thousand feet of best 

 yellow pine ; 



New pipe fence on Ninth avenue, and on Franklin and 

 Ocean avenues, about two thousand five hundred feet in all ; 



New Shelter in Winthrop Park; 



Three new road scrapers; 



Five hundred new settees; 



Sash and frames for two hundred and twenty-five feet of 

 new cold frames; 



Twelve large cypress boxes, for palms. 



One new paddock for elk (GOO feet) ; 



