Park Commission 
395 
REPORT OF PARK FORESTRY AND 
HORTICULTURE 
During the year 1912, new forest nurseries were started at Ault 
Park, Blachly Farm and Mt. Airy Forest, with the object of growing 
young trees on the property where they were to be eventually per- 
manently planted. Orders have been placed for 150,000 seedlings 
and transplants for this purpose. In addition to these new nurser- 
ies, the old nursery at Covedale is still growing trees and shrubs 
for general distribution among park properties. 
The woods in the various parks have been cleaned up, and a 
large amount of dead wood corded for sale. 
Planting of trees and shrubs has been done at Garfield, Hop- 
kins, Lytle, McKinley, Madison, Washington and Westwood Parks, 
Wulsin Triangle, Filson Outlook and Burnet avenue and Reading 
road. 
On all streets bordering parks, dead trees have been replaced 
with live ones. Tree surgery has been in operation in all the parks. 
Observatory road, between Madison and Menlo, has been widened 
and planted, thus affording an initial example of street parking 
in the city of Cincinnati. 
All plants used in summer bedding throughout the parks and 
in the beds of many of the city institutions are raised in the park 
greenhouses at Eden Park. These houses are always open to the 
public. The chrysanthemum show of 1912, the best ever held here, 
was visited by many thousands of people. 
