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Superintendents of Parks Report for October 1893

To the Hon. the Board of Park Commissioners Seattle Wash

Gentlemen

The work ocurring October upon the City Parks was as follows; upon Kinnear Park the care and maintenances of its walks and lawns, constructing the new bluff outlet walk on the south and completing the placing of binding material on the walks, collecting seeds of annual and perennials, care of the flower beds and borders, taking up of tender roots bulbs and perennials.

Remodeling of the old beds and new ones has been begun as also preparing the ground for The new shrubs trees and plants to be planted out durring the fall and winter season.

The City Park work has continued without interuption. Stumps removed, roots grubbed ground ploughed, rocks taken off, and ground made ready to receive the nursery stock as soon as possible, it will require all the winter season to plant out the new

rooted cuttings, seedlings and crowded plants The Nursery stock has been taken. The Nursery is now being divided into the seedling, perrennial and wooded plant sections for greater convenience of their care and system. While the overcrowded stock will be planted out into the newly cleared portions. The seedling department has to be enlarged to accomodate the large increase from the tree shrub & plant seeds added this fall.

The hot beds are in progress of construction. The green house is now stocked with its collection of tender plants for winter propagation for next years plantings in the Parks [Gates?] a number of plants etc have been received for exchanges:

The collection of indigenous plant shrubs and the seeds made by the Superintendent amount now to 116 different varieties of the Puget Sound country, and cost him $145.70 not charged up to the eity of which he offers to the City one half of the plants raised therefore. It is intended and hoped that this nucleus will be the ground work for establishing in Seattle the Pacific Coast Arboretum, as well as add

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The valuable flora of this West Coast to available planting and exchange plants of this department.

The Superintendent is preparing your annual report of your preparation assets etc etc.

Respectfully

E O Schwagerl Supt & Engineer

Rupert Supt Parks for October 1893 CF224-22