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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 immediate 

 neighborhood of the large buildings, where considerable 

 grading has been necessary, but even here the study has been 

 to adjust the new surfaces so that they shall merge imper- 

 ceptibly into the original ones. Ornamental masonry retain- 

 ing walls, made necessary by the grades of the roadways, 

 have been built at the Mosholu Parkway entrance, at the 

 Woodlawn road entrance, and at the approach to the Ele- 

 vated Railway station, and vines have been planted at the 

 bases of these walls which partly clothe them with foliage. 



The plan of the driveway and path systems called for the 

 construction of six bridges; three of these, first, the lake 

 bridge, crossing the valley of the lakes near the museum 

 building; second, the long bridge, which carries the drive- 

 way across the valley of the Bronx River north of the hem- 

 lock forest; and, third, the upper bridge which crosses the 

 Bronx River at the northern end of the Garden, have been 

 carried out in masonry arches from designs by Mr. John R. 

 Brinley, landscape engineer of the Garden. A stone boulder 

 foot-bridge of five arches, just at the northern end of the 

 hemlock forest was built from designs by the same engineer; 

 studies have been made for a bridge to replace the wooden 

 bridge which crosses the gorge of the Bronx River at the 

 Lorillard mansion ; and the sixth bridge in the plan is a foot- 

 bridge, not yet built, to cross the Bronx River in the north 

 meadows. 



The park treatment further contemplates the planting of 

 shade trees where these are needed along the driveways, and 

 much of this has been done, a great many kinds of trees 

 having been used, and many shrub plantations have been set 

 out, especially at roadway and path intersections, utilizing 

 considerable numbers of the same kinds of shrubs at different 

 points. 



