FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED. JOHN CHARLES OLMSTED. CHARLES ELIOT. 



OLMSTED, OLMSTED& ELIOT, 



LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS. 



EDWARD D.BOLTON, WARREN H.MANN ING. 



Superintendent of Construction. Superintendent of Planting. 



Brook line, Mass. Marcll 16th,- 18f6. 



Walter Deane, Esq., 



Cambridge, Mass. 



Dear Sir;- I have received your two notes of I: arch 

 13th. Please note that we expect you to ooiitrive so as to 

 get your hundred copies hound with the maps and your fifty 

 copies interleaved all within the appropriation of #350 made 

 "by the Commission. 



As to the question of admitting notes on plants or lists of 

 plants to the printed volume, I hope you will make a strict rule 

 to admit nothing that is not reliably ascertained to have been 

 found within the bounds of at least one of the reservations. 

 No lists ought to be printed or made a part of the book which 

 do not specifically mention the reservation or the reservations 

 within which the species mentioned has been found. Indeed, 

 I think you ought to be very cautious about admitting any species 

 which are not supported by actual specimens. This I know 

 to be the view of the Commissioners and the rule ought to be 

 strictly enforced. I am authorised to sneak for the Commission 

 in this matter, because our firm were directed by Vote of the 

 Commission to cause botanical w-.rk to be begun and the printed 

 lists to be prepared. 



Yours truly, 



