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22. The north meadows and river woods along the Bronx River from 

 the northern end of the hemlock grove to the northern end of the garden. 



23. Deciduous woodlands on rocky ridges in the southern and central 

 parts of the reservation. 



E. Park features. 



24. Entrances. 



25. Roads and paths. 



26. Bridges. 



27. Water supply and drainage. 



28. Shade trees and border screens. 



29. Shelters and pergolas. 



THE ADMINISTRATION OF BOTANICAL GARDENS IN THE UNITED STATES 



For the most part the principal botanical gardens in the United States 

 are under the administrative control of private corporations, Buffalo being 

 the only exception. Here the botanical garden was founded directly by a 

 park department and maintained as an integral part of the park system to 

 the present day. Park departments have, on the whole, contented them- 

 selves with the development and maintenance of general landscape gardening, 

 or with special types of gardens, or with the operation and maintenance of 

 a conservatory, although there are comparatively few of the latter publicly 

 owned in the United States. 



The Harvard Botanical Garden and the Arnold Arboretum are under the 

 administrative control of the president and fellows of Harvard University, 

 although in the case of the arboretum the City of Boston through its park 

 and recreation department contracted with the president and fellows of 

 the university to grant additional land, construct and maintain a system 

 of driveways and walks, pay any taxes that may be levied against the 

 property of the arboretum and police the property. 



The Missouri Botanical Garden is governed by a board of trustees. 

 As early as 1859 Mr. Shaw, the founder and donor of the garden, "secured 

 the passage of an act by the Legislature of the State of Missouri which 

 empowered him to deed or will, as he might elect, such of his property as 

 he wished, to trustees for the maintenance of 'a botanical garden for the 

 cultivation and propagation of plants, flowers, fruit and forest trees, and 

 for the dissemination of the knowledge thereof among men, by having a 

 collection thereof easily accessible; by the establishment of a museum and 

 library in connection therewith, as also by the establishment of public 

 lectures and instruction upon botany and its allied sciences, when it shall 

 be deemed advisable in furtherance of the general objects of said trust; 

 and . . . for the purpose of maintaining a perpetual fund for the support 



