Board of Park Commissioners 
11 
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT 
To the Honorable Board of Park Commissioners, Cincinnati, 0.: 
Gentlemen — The work of the superintendent during the 
year was ahiiost entirely one of maintenance. Little new work 
was attempted. The increasing duties of the ever-extending sys- 
tem have become so numerous, so varied and wide-spread, that 
even this work is already too large for one man to efficiently 
handle. 
Auburn Place 
This park proved to be very attractive to the number of 
patrons who found much restfulness in the beauty of the park 
and the excellent manner in which it was maintained. 
The usual attractive bedding was well-cared for. Fifteen 
hundred cannas, geraniums, musa's coleus, etc., were used in 
its beautification in summer, whilst three thousand tulip bulbs 
were planted for its spring adornment. 
Burnet Woods 
Work in this park was successfully prosecuted along lines 
adopted a year ago, with increasingly good results. Seven hun- 
dred and fifty cannas and geraniums were planted in five beds 
in the spring, and about two thousand tulips in the fall. Forty 
Norway maples, twelve elms and thirty yucca filamentosa were 
planted; many minor plots of grading was done, and the newly- 
graded area at Calhoun street and Clifton avenue seeded with 
good results. 
Two sets of swing frames, twelve swings in all, and eight 
teeter boards of modern manufacture were much used, and were 
the means of drawing people to this park for family picnics. 
