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on the Garden reservation and now partly on land of the 
Bronx Parkway Commission, inasmuch as it has never 
been formally condemned for street purposes. 
The creation of the Bronx River Parkway has now made 
the construction of this street undesirable, and the tentative 
plans of the Commission do not include it. 
Grading and Drainage 
The rough, steep river banks on the additional land at 
the Linnaean bridge were graded and regulated early in 
the spring. An old quarry on the hill near the south- 
western corner of the grounds, an unsightly and dangerous 
feature, has been nearly filled by a contractor without 
cost to the Garden, and the original contour of the hill 
thus essentially restored. Some filling has also been ob- 
tained without cost from contractors for the bank against 
the railroad at the extreme northern corner of the Garden. 
Following a plan approved by you June 17, 1915, and 
previously approved by the Commissioner of Parks of the 
Borough of The Bronx, the grading necessary to establish 
the new driveway south of the mansion and crossing the 
north end of the long lake has been about one half 
completed, and this work is still in progress. At the 
extreme southwestern corner of the grounds, in establishing 
the iris garden and a portion of the path system, much 
grading and regulating were accomplished. At conserva- 
tory range 2, unfinished banks and lawns were regulated 
and graded, and minor work of this character has been 
done at other points, including some preliminary grading 
at the rose garden site. 
At power house 2, additional work was accomplished 
early in the year in the construction of the deep drain de- 
signed to relieve the present trouble caused by springs 
under the steam-pipe tunnel, a road culvert north of the 
western end of the Linnaean bridge was connected with the 
river by a 12-inch drain, a 6-inch drain-pipe was laid 
through the entire length of the valley planned for the rose 
