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The water supply has also been constructed in accordance 
with the general plan and the system has been extended 
from year to year as the development of the grounds 
proceeded. 
The general planting plan includes provision for par- 
tially surrounding the grounds, except at entrances, with 
border screens. This planting has already been accom- 
plished along the western and northern boundaries, and 
partly along the southern and eastern boundaries. These 
screens are composed of a very great variety of trees and 
shrubs, variously grouped, and average about fifty feet in 
width. 
A feature of this border screen is an old-fashioned flower 
border, composed of herbaceous plants in large variety, 
which extends from the 200th Street, or Bedford Park 
Avenue, entrance northward to the New York Central 
Railway Station and thence to the Mosholu Parkway en- 
trance, and there is a similar plantation at the Elevated 
Railway station; here herbaceous perennials are massed in 
front of a belt of flowering shrubs which in turn are backed 
by the trees of the border screen, and so selected that some 
of them are in bloom throughout the season. Among the 
plants used in this old-fashioned flower border are daffodils, 
crocuses, irises, phloxes, paeonies, rose mallows, sun- 
flowers, cone-flowers, coreopsis, columbines and many 
others. 
Docentry 
In order to provide a method for viewing the collections 
under guidance, an aid leaves the front door of the Museum 
Building every week-day afternoon at 3 o’clock, to escort 
all who may wish to accompany him. ‘The routes are as 
follows: 
Monday: Hemlock Forest, Mansion, and Herbaceous 
Garden. ‘Tuesday: Pinetum. Wednesday: Fruticetum 
and North Meadows. Thursday: Deciduous Arboretum, 
Nurseries and Propagating Houses, and Public Conserva- 
tories, Range 2. Friday: Public Conservatories, Range 1. 
Saturday: Museums. 
