either prevent such flooding, or to shed the flood water as 

 soon as the river falls; considerable filling is still required 

 and work can profitably go forward there during another 

 season. A large area, collectively, in the north meadows, 

 may be sown and brought into lawn treatment in the spring. 

 At the eastern end of the Boulder Bridge a marsh was trans- 

 formed into a lake by excavating to an average depth of 

 about three feet, and a canal to serve as an arm of the Bronx 

 River was excavated from the Boulder Bridge southward 

 through another marsh; the excavated material was used 

 to form the approach to the Boulder Bridge from the east 

 and for filling a stagnant pool south of the bridge; a small 

 amount of work still remains to be done there. Consider- 

 able grading to form banks was also done at both ends of 

 the Long Bridge over the Bronx River as well as at the 

 Upper Bridge. The rough bank along the river road south 

 of the Upper Bridge was regulated and graded, but not 

 quite completed. Between conservatory range no. 2 and 

 its boiler house, on the eastern side of the grounds, banks and 

 slopes were regulated and graded and prepared for sowing 

 in the spring. 



All the rock needed for roads and paths under construc- 

 tion was excavated at the rear of the museum building and 

 a considerable additional area there may be brought into 

 lawn in the spring; much surplus earth was hauled from 

 this point to the north meadows and elsewhere. The 

 necessary excavation of the rock in order to properly grade 

 the grounds at this point will supply all the stone necessary 

 for the paths still to be built; this work has progressed 

 slowly, but steadily and, as all the material is being used 

 and is needed it is t 



During the next year it is desirable that considerable 

 grading be done along the eastern border of the Garden 

 owing to the construction, along that line, of the boundary 

 street known as the Bronx Boulevard, now in progress by 

 the City Department of Public Works. 



The building of this boundary street, already also called 



