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was laid underground along the driveway approach to the 
new conservatory ; these cables were mostly laid in the water- 
main trenches before closing them; to complete the system it 
is still necessary to connect the stable and propagating houses 
with the end of the 8-wire cable in this plaza, and dispense 
with a portion of the wire previously laid. We shall thus 
have all buildings connected by underground cables. The 
museum building has long been connected by underground 
cable with the public telephone system of the city. The 
Telephone Company has recommended to me that a public 
telephone booth be provided in the museum building and I 
regard this as desirable ; I recommend that the Garden’s tele- 
phone system be brought to such a central booth when com- 
pletely established and that all telephonic service be put in 
charge of an aid who will also be assigned the sale of guide 
books and photographs. 
Plants and Planting 
Planting was carried on at various parts of the grounds 
during the spring and fall, taking advantage of the large 
amount of additional land prepared for it during the past two 
years, as recorded in detail by the Head Gardener in his report 
hereto appended. This work included the completion of 
the west border along the New York Central and Hudson 
River Railroad, which was broken by the construction of the 
approaches to the Mosholu Parkway and to the Woodlawn 
Road, and the filling in of the gap near the west end of the 
upper lake; the completion of the planting of the economic 
garden in the glade southeast of the museum building; the 
planting of flower gardens in the rectangular plots at the 
north side of the first range of public conservatories, and in- 
creasing the systematic collections in the herbaceous grounds, 
the fruticetum, the pinetum and the arboretum, together with 
the establishment of decorative groups of shrubs at several 
points. 
It is desirable during the coming year to continue planting 
operations in accordance with the general plan, both by 
