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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF 

 GROUNDS 

 Dr. N. L. Britton, Director-in-Chief. 



Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report 

 for the year 1910. 



Regulating and Grading 



Considerable work of this class has been done, especially 

 in the northern part of the Garden. Early in spring, after 

 the frost was out of the ground, the paths east and west 

 of the main driveway were surfaced and the water pipe 

 put underground north of the Scott Avenue Bridge, the 

 grass gutters between the road and paths were brought 

 to grade with top soil to the Upper Bridge, west of the road 

 about a thousand square feet and east of the road about 

 half an acre were graded and regulated, the edge of paths 

 and roads sodded, and these areas sown and trees and 

 shrubs planted. The portion of the slope left unfinished 

 in 1909 east of the Upper Bridge, 309 feet in length and 

 30 feet in width, has been regulated, covered with top soil, 

 and sown. The surplus earth obtained from that part, 

 about a thousand cubic yards, was used to grade the 

 eastern meadows north of the cross path and the surplus 

 earth left by the contractor building the retaining wall of 

 the Eastern Boulevard has been used to fill in the area 

 south of the cross path. 



The newly laid drain pipe has been safely covered to 

 guard it from freezing, the path line west and parallel 

 with the river-road and a part of the sunken meadows 

 have been filled to grade, about 1,500 cubic yards having 

 been used to make said fill. The northeast corner of the 

 Garden north of the curve of the river road and also be- 

 tween the retaining wall and the road, a space of 470 square 

 yards, has been regulated, surfaced with good soil, and 



