sentences:  In the same year that the Botanic Gardens was gazetted as a park (1887), Burke Street was extended through the Reserve to Paxton Street.Significant incursions into the reserve included a Gaol Reserve and Reserve for a Lunatic Reception House in the southeast corner (1885) and a reserve for sport and recreation ( in 1899).By 1915 the Reserve was reduced to , with leases being issued to the Croquet Club (1924).