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ing operations in the vicinity of the Garden, due to war 
conditions, prevented us from obtaining the filling needed 
from contractors having surplus earth to dispose of, but 
it is hoped that this material will be forthcoming during 
the next season. In reply to an inquiry by the Commis- 
sioner of Parks in May, relative to requirements for cor- 
porate stock during the next four years, the request was 
made for an issue of $5,000 for the completion of this 
driveway, which would finish the construction of the drive- 
way system of the reservation as planned. 
Some work has been done toward completing the drive- 
way approach to the central display greenhouse at con- 
servatory range 2 from the Bronx Boulevard and is in 
progress there at the present time, looking to the com- 
pletion of this road in the early spring. 
All the constructed paths, and the trails through the 
woodlands, have been kept in order by our own employees, 
requiring only the hoeing out of weeds and the resurfacing 
of paths of the system by ashes from the power house. 
Additional paths, 10 feet in width, aggregating a total 
length of 1,685 feet, have been constructed in various parts 
of the grounds, and several hundred feet of others have 
been partially built, as recorded in the report of the Super- 
intendent of Buildings and Grounds hereto appended. 
All the bridges have been carefully inspected and are in 
good order. 
Grading and Drainage 
Contingent upon the building of additional paths, con- 
siderable grading and filling was required; earth used in 
filling was obtained from the excavation made for an addi- 
tional coal bunker at power house 2, as also considerable 
stone used in path building. At conservatory range 2, 
a large knoll of rock along the Bronx Boulevard was drilled 
and blasted and the rock used for building walls of the new 
greenhouses and of the new coal bunker, and also in roads 
and paths, sufficient being reserved to construct the walls 
of a new coal bunker at power house 1. The removal of 
