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graded and work is still in progress at that point, and much 
grading was done along the road and path approaches to 
these buildings. Owing to the necessity of providing a 
drain running under the floor of the cellar at the new green- 
houses a very deep excavation had to be made for about 500 
feet; inasmuch as this drain had to underlie not alone the 
cellar of the greenhouses constructed during the year, but 
also under the extension of these houses planned for future 
construction, the cellar for the greenhouses still to be con- 
structed was partially excavated, in order to save moving 
the same earth twice, and this surplus earth was used in 
grading along the river road where it was needed to complete 
the banks. 
A strip of land about 2,000 feet long and averaging 10 
feet wide along the new fence at the southern boundary, was 
graded and prepared for planting after the fence was con- 
structed. 
Much grading has also been done along the driveway at 
present under construction, leading from the plaza near the 
stable to the southeastern corner of the Garden. Minor grad- 
ing operations have included the surfacing of banks and other 
small areas in various parts of the grounds uncompleted dur- 
ing previous years. 
During the grading operations on the eastern side of the 
grounds a large amount of drain pipe has been laid and many 
additional catch basins built. The construction of the new 
fence on the southwestern boundary made it necessary to 
build a new drainage connection with a comfort station near 
the end of the elevated railroad approach, for a distance of 
about 200 feet, and also to make a new steam connection for 
this building with power house no. 1. The same trench was 
used for both the new drain pipe and the new steam pipe con- 
uit. 
A long stretch of marshy ground at the foot of the bank at 
the eastern side of the fruticetum plain and west of the Bronx 
River, has been filled by cinders from the power house, and 
thus prepared for the building of a path, and cinders have 
