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available firewood obtained is burned in the heating plants 
of the smaller buildings, and the use of coal is thus reduced. 
In order to keep these woodland tracts as typical illustra- 
tions of eastern United States forests, no extraneous plants 
have been brought into them, except in one small area on a 
bank just east of the fruticetum, where many herbaceous 
woodland species not native of the region have been planted. 
14. Park Features 
The whole plan of the development of the Garden has 
been designed in such a manner as to include all the features 
of a public park, and it has been carried out in close coopera- 
tion with successive park commissioners and engineers of 
the Borough of the Bronx. The grounds are open to the 
public every day in the year without any charge whatever. 
An elaborate series of driveways provides several miles of 
Telford-Macadam roads, most of which are now constructed 
with suitable entrances at ten points as follows: 
1. Mosholu Parkway. 2. Bedford Park Avenue. 3. 
Southern Boulevard. 4. IrisGarden. 5. Linnaean Bridge. 
6. Mansion Approach. 7. Arboretum entrance (not yet 
completed). 8. A'’lerton Avenue. 9. Bronx River Park- 
way. 10. Woodlawn Road. 
Paths located so as to lead to all the principal features 
are included in the plan, with an aggregate length of over 
fifteen miles and approximately three-fourths of this system 
has already been built, and there are several miles of forest 
trails. 
All the roads and paths have been located so as to do no 
damage to the natural features of the grounds, particular 
care having been taken to save all possible standing trees 
and to avoid disturbing natural slopes except in the im- 
mediate neighborhood of the large buildings, where con- 
siderable grading has been necessary, but even here the 
study has been to adjust the new surfaces so that they shall 
merge imperceptibly into the original ones. Ornamental 
masonry retaining walls, made necessary by the grades of 
the roadways, have been built at the Mosholu Parkway 
