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Drainage 
Two catch-basins, 80 feet of 6-inch drainage pipe, and 
100 feet of 3-inch porous pipe have been placed at the 
iris garden for drainage. To drain the lowland in the 
north meadow, 100 feet of 4-inch drain pipe have been 
used. We placed 44 feet of 15-inch pipe under the roadway 
to drain the convention garden, and built three catch- 
basins and laid 60 feet of 4-inch pipe to drain the rose 
garden. 
Roads and Paths 
All the roads throughout the grounds were tarred and 
covered with grit by the Park Department. We have 
completed 716 feet of 1o-foot paths at the iris garden. On 
the western side of the Bronx River, a path 300 feet long 
and 10 feet wide has been lined and is now ready to be 
paved. We have lined and made ready for paving 2,305 
feet of 1o-foot paths running through the convention 
garden to the iris garden. The stone used for the con- 
struction of the paths west of the Bronx River was taken 
from the quarry near the museum building. We have 
lined and made ready for paving 1,035 feet of a 10-foot 
path outside the rose garden boundary and 1,123 feet of a 
path 8 feet wide on the inside of this boundary. Paths 
from the elevated railway approach to conservatory range I, 
all the paths around the terrace of conservatory range I, 
and paths leading from conservatory range 2 to the Allerton 
Avenue entrance have been screened. 
Buildings 
Considerable repairs were made throughout the Garden 
during the year by our mechanics. The carpenters re- 
placed several rafters in the dome and in houses 4, 13, 14, 
and 1s of conservatory range 1, and repaired all the ven- 
tilating sash. A workshop has been constructed in the 
north runway of power house 1, and one wall exhibition 
case twenty feet long was built for the main floor of the 
museum building. The cedar fence south of the herbaceous 
