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through the western arch of the Long Bridge and through 

 the marshy woods northward to the fruticetum. Short 

 lengths of connecting paths were built at other points in 

 the grounds. The total length of paths completed and 

 opened during the year is 4,306 feet; the total length of 

 paths partially completed during the year is about 3,300 

 feet. 



The necessity of additional path connections between 

 conservatory range no. 1 and the approach to the museum 

 building, through the pinetum, has been becoming more 

 and more apparent. A careful study of this subject was 

 made early in the year and a plan was prepared by Mr. 

 John R. Brinley, Landscape Engineer of the Garden, and 

 approved by the Board of Managers and by the Commis- 

 sioner of Public Parks, calling for about 1,000 feet of ad- 

 ditional path construction, work on which may be com- 

 menced in the spring. 



All the rock needed for the Telford foundations of paths 

 constructed has been obtained from the necessary grading 

 operations, and principally from behind the museum 

 building. 



The maintenance of roads and paths has been accom- 

 plished by the Park Department, under the requirement 

 of the Garden's charter, except the weeding of paths which 

 has been done by Garden laborers. As a whole, the system 

 is in good condition. A thin coat of oil emulsion applied 

 to the roads during the summer was of service. These 

 driveways, situated as they are in the center of the northern 

 Park system of the Borough of the Bronx, are continually 

 subject to greater and greater wear owing to their rapidly 

 increasing use, and consequently require increasing at- 

 tention; the steeper grades and the curves are the most 

 abraded by motor cars, and require frequent repairs. The 

 traffic road, from the Southern Boulevard entrance to 

 Bedford Park Boulevard entrance, was resurfaced with 

 gravel, but the heavy truckage on this road has cut this 

 new surface up badly, and the road is now muddy. 



