FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED- JO H N CHAR LES O LMSTEO. CHARLES ELIOT. 



OLMSTED, OLMSTED& ELIOT, 



LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS. 



EDWARD D.BOLTON, WARREN H.MANN.NG. 



SlIFFRINTENOHNT OF CONSTRUCTS . SuPF.RINTF.NOF.NT OF PLANTING. 



Brookline. Mass. 



April 4 th f 1896. 



Mr. Walter Deane, 



Cambridge, Mass. 



Dear Sir;- How does the printing get along? At 

 the next meeting I propose to ask the Board whether they wish 

 to uake the book an official publication or not,- whether the 

 title page should read- 

 Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

 Metropolitan Park Commission 

 Bulletin No. 1 



FLORA 



of the 



f \ 



Public Reservations controlled by 



the 



Metropolitan Park Commission. 



Preliminary Edition 

 1896 

 or the same with the top lines left off. It might, at all 

 events, be well to have the introduction start off as follows :- 



Extract from the records of the meeting of the metropoli- 

 tan park commission held January 26th, 1894. 



"Ordered;- that the landscape architects (Messrs. Olm- 

 sted, Olmsted & Eliot) be authorized to incur an expense not ex- 



