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gating house path an area of 108 X 155 feet was graded and 
sown with grass seed. Boulders, extending for a distance of 
150 feet, were placed along the river road to guard the bank. 
Drainage 
In this class of work there has been laid 320 feet of six-inch 
pipe connected with the propagating houses on the east side 
running south, and through the boundary fence wall, with one 
catch-basin. One catch-basin was built at Power House 
No. 2, one at Long Bridge and one in the gutter north of 
Power House No. 2, at the cross walk. The four dams in 
the Herbaceous Grounds were repaired. 
Roads and Paths 
About 1,926 feet of new paths were completed. Around 
Conservatory Range No. 1 two 10-foot paths, each 330 feet 
long, with two cross paths each 45 feet long, one on the 
eastern side of the conservatories and the other on the 
western side, were constructed. A path Io feet wide and 
544 feet long was constructed from Conservatory Range 
No. 1 through the Pinetum to the Museum Building. 
On the eastern side of the propagating houses a road 10 
feet wide and 150 feet long, and one path at Power House 
No. 2, 10 feet wide and 200 feet long, were built. Two 
10-foot cross paths, 38 feet and 29 feet long respectively, 
have been built at the northeastern part of the Garden, and 
215 feet of connecting path at the Syphon. 
On the eastern side of the Bronx River 1,186 feet of path- 
way and on the western side, north of Long Bridge, 450 feet 
were surfaced and screened. A path north of Power House 
No. 2, 350 feet long, one on the western side of the new 
road, 591 feet long, and another east of the river and north 
of Chestnut Bridge, 1,110 feet long, have been surfaced and 
screened. 
The paths around Conservatory Range No. 1, the Museum 
building, and the Herbaceous Grounds were resurfaced with 
screening. 
