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tastes. One side of it was a swamp, which has been 
turned into a pretty little lake. The middle prom- 
enade is wide and will be shaded by lindens, suggested 
by the promenade called “Unter den Linden,” in Ber- 
lin. The cost of the land was $145,740.22, of the build- 
ings $27,592.90, and improvements, $88,403.75. 
Orange Park was, before improvement, a low marsh 
m the cities of Orange and East Orange. It cost : land, 
$149,418.56; buildings, $35,794.47; 
improvements, 
$ii3B35.oi. The citizens living in the vicinity con- 
tributed $17,275 for its improvement. It is charac- 
terized b\' Olmsted Brothers as “the gem of the smaller 
parks of the county.” A little lake has been excavated 
beside a grove of trees, where it is intended to have 
swings, see-saws, and other simple apparatus for chil- 
dren's amusements. ' 
\\ eequahic Reservation lies within the city limits 
of Eewark, and has as its chief topographical features 
a lake-like marsh, surrounded, except at the northeast 
end, by more 01 less wooded banks. Southeast and 
southwest of these the land is rolling and mostly open 
and has been and is still in part used for farming. A 
railroad, on an unusually high embankment, bounds 
this reservation along the whole length of its north- 
west side, and the designers recommend that this be 
screened by raising a border mound with a varying 
profile along its summit. The circuit drive from the 
playground section to the Waverly avenue entrance, 
the Speedway Oval, the Speedway, and a narrow earth 
drive around the southwest end of the lake have also 
been graded. This reservation cost: for land, $198,- 
053-51; buildings, $28,050 ; improvements, $67,258.98. 
Eagle Rock Reservation occupies the northeast cor- 
ner of West Orange and a little strip of Montclair. 
The beautiful residence district of West Orange 
touches its southern extremity, and it is said that from 
Eagle Rock can be seen the homes and workshops of 
more people than from any other natural elevation in 
the world. The cost of this tract was $221,063.33; of 
the buildings on it, $22,500, and of the improvements, 
$24,066.65. The trees in the reservation have been 
trimmed and thinned under the direction of the for- 
estry department of Olmsted Brothers. The sale of 
the cut wood has paid for the work and netted a small 
I^rofit beside. The trees have been very carefully pro- 
tected from too reckless cutting, and only the timber 
which interefered with the healthy growth of the more 
vigorous trees has been removed. During the past 
year the general plan for the improvement of this res- 
ervation was completed. 
bouth Alountain is the largest of the reservations. 
It is about four mile's long and one mile wide, and 
lies partly in West Orange, South Orange and Alill- 
burn. The cost of the land was $187,289.01, the 
buildings, $31,977, and improvements, $24,619.28. It 
has about 12 miles of roads. Studies have been com- 
pleted for the plan and future improvement of this 
tract, and extensive improvements have been made. 
Numbers of old houses and barns and many old fences 
and hedge rows of bushes and trees w^ere removed se- 
as to unify the former farm fields into extensive mead- 
ows. A number of important views were opened up 
and large areas of w^oods had a preliminary thinning. 
Concerning future work in this reservation, the land- 
scape architects offer this advice : "It is of the utmost 
importance, in order to secure the highest value for 
the investment made in this great woodland reserva- 
tion, that a well-considered scheme of gradual im- 
provement of the woods should be consistently and, 
steadily pursued. Elowever small the sum may be 
which can be spared annually for this reservation, the 
greater part of it ought to be spent in aesthetic forestry 
work and but little of it should be frittered aw'ay in 
making or maintaining roads and the other ordinary 
routine work of a reservation.” 
Watsessing Park was presented to the commission 
by the city of East Orange, so that there w-as no cost 
for land. The improvements cost $6,256.49. 
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