Bronx Park East, will also necessitate the construction of 

 permanent driveway and path entrances on the eastern 

 side of the Garden, as contemplated in the original plan of 

 development. From the southeastern end of the grounds 

 northward to near the south end of the present nurseries 

 the grade lies a little above that of the Garden ground, but 

 the grades may be brought together here by a small amount 

 of filling; from this point northwardly to the stable the 

 grade lies below that of the Garden, forming a steep bank 

 which may partly be treated by grading and will, in part, 

 be a cliff excavated through ledges of rock; from the stable 

 northwardly past conservatory range no. 2 to power house 

 no. 2, the grades essentially agree, little work being re- 

 quired; but from power house no. 2 northwardly to the 

 northeastern corner of the Garden grounds, the grade of the 

 street lies above that of the Garden land, in some places 

 as much as 22 feet. The Commissioner of Parks of the 

 Borough of the Bronx has, at my request, called on the 

 Department of Public Works for the building of a retaining 

 wall between these points; if this were not done the filling 

 needed for the bank to support this new street would come 

 far out into the Garden grounds, burying a large number of 

 fine trees and forming an unsightly feature, impossible of 

 satisfactory landscape treatment. The matter was dis- 

 cussed by the President of the Borough of the Bronx, and 

 his engineers, the Commissioner of Parks, and Mr. Schenck, 

 his Chief Engineer, Mr. Samuel Parsons, Landscape Archi- 

 tect of the Park Department, and myself, at a conference 

 held on December 31, 1909, and the building of this wall 

 was agreed to. 



Roads and Paths 

 The driveway approach to conservatory range no. 2 

 was finished and brought into use in the spring; the con- 

 struction of the extreme northern end of this road is de- 

 ferred until additional greenhouses of this range are built. 

 The construction of the remaining part of the main drive- 

 way from near the stable to the southeastern entrance of 



