Park Department 
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TloncMitural Department 
The greenhouses located at Eden Park are the source of the 
entire supply of plants for the ornamental bedding in the parks. 
The number of plants grown for bedding purposes, as well as 
those kept for ornamental display in the show-houses, are given 
below, the variety name being also listed. 
It is my intention to add to the collection at present in the 
greenhouses about twenty new varieties of crotons, forty varieties 
of begonias, fifteen to twenty varieties of cannas, and probably 
twenty-five new and pleasing varieties of ornamental plants that 
are desirable. We will also purchase quite a variety of orchids 
during the coming year to enlarge our collection, as well as about 
five hundred palms in variety. 
After visiting nearly all the large conservatories of the coun- 
try I can state that, with the above-mentioned additions to our 
plants, we would have one of the finest collections of tropical 
plants to be found anywhere in the country. The condition of 
the plants at our conservatories as to healthfulness and vigorous- 
ness of growth is unquestionably unsurpassed by any single col- 
lection of plants I have ever seen. 
