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whom we are also indebted for other valued cooperation 
and advice. Work upon the unfinished part of the drive- 
way leading east from the rose garden, referred to in my 
report of a year ago, was continued by the Park Depart- 
ment, but the funds available from the city appropria- 
tion proved insufficient to complete it. In order to ensure 
its completion we took advantage of opportunity, com- 
mencing in December, to accomplish the remaining Telford 
paving and the grading of banks necessary and this work 
is now essentially completed, having been made possible 
by continued mild weather. The broken trap-rock for 
the macadam layer has been obtained and stacked by the 
Park Department. It now remains to use a steam-roller, 
for which provision has been made, spread the broken 
stone and obtain sufficient trap-rock screenings for sur- 
facing and to oil the surface, all of which we hope, through 
further cooperation with the Park Department, to accom- 
plish next year. The opening of this road will complete 
the driveway system of the Garden reservation as planned. 
It will sooner or later become necessary, however, to widen 
the present narrow road leading south from the rose garden 
to Pelham Parkway, as we have realized for some time. 
The path system has been maintained by laborers under 
the direction of Foreman Gardener Finley; considerable 
resurfacing was accomplished and considerable needs to 
be done. New paths at the new iris garden and approach- 
ing it, aggregating 970 lineal feet in length and ten feet 
wide, were completely built, and 850 lineal feet were 
graded and made ready for the rock foundation which it 
is planned to supply during the winter from necessary 
grading operations near the museum building; the paths 
approaching the new cherry-garden shelter-house from 
the south and east, aggregating 280 lineal feet, ten feet wide 
were nearly completely built. The path leading south 
from the rose-garden stairway, commenced last autumn, 
was completed, as also the path leading southwest from 
the mallow garden along the western side of the driveway 
