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per week. This arrangement has made conditions there such 
that it takes two mechanics but two hours in the morning to put 
all tools in condition for the entire day. 
One hundred and fifty bushels of grass-seed were sown in 
Eden Park, the formula being as follows: 
This mixture where sown (as have other experiments made else- 
where a number of times) proved very gratifying. The blue- 
grass and redtop furnished a splendid turf during the early 
summer, and the perennial rye remained green until late fall. 
The music for band concerts in Eden Park, financed by the 
Schmidlapp Eden-Park Sunday Concert Fund, was ably fur- 
nished by John C. Weber's Grand Orchestra and Military Band. 
Not only are these concerts beneficial to the great masses of 
people who attend, from an elevating and refining point of view, 
but they are the means of inducing hundreds to visit the park 
who would not otherwise become acquainted with its beauty. 
Nineteen concerts were given here during the past summer, with 
an estimated average attendance of ten thousand people, and 
while there were a great number of carriages and other vehicles, 
the people have become so thoroughly conversant with the dis- 
cipline that not an accident occurred during the entire season. 
It was believed that every one would concur in that it would 
be a great educational advantage to those who frequent the 
parks to have the trees labeled, and accordingly a sum of money 
was used for this purpose, and the greater number of each variety 
of trees labeled to the extent of the amount at hand. I would 
urgently recommend that there be a fund supplied next year 
whereby all the trees and shrubs may be labeled, that the parks 
may be more educational from a botanical standpoint to those 
who visit them from time to time. 
5 parts bluegrass 
5 " redtop 
3 " perennial ry( 
1 " white clover 
