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the Assistant Director and in that of the Superintendent of 
Grounds, hereto appended. 
The bronze fountain in front of the museum building was 
successfully completed and mounted early in July. 
The Hemlock Grove 
The increasing number of visitors makes it now very 
desirable that some restriction of the use of this natural 
woodland should be required. It has already been found 
necessary to increase the patrol of this tract to guard against 
fires set by thoughtless persons, and other destructive ten- 
dencies. Hitherto no attempt has been made to prevent the 
indiscriminate trampling of the floor of this forest, but inas- 
much as this dangerous process will evidently rapidly increase 
unless restricted, it is now recommended that means be taken 
to confine pedestrianism to well defined paths and trails, and 
that the codperation of the Commissioner of Parks be requested 
in order that this may be carried out. I think it rather cer- 
tain that simple notices requiring visitors to keep to the paths 
and trails will not be sufficient, though it is perhaps best to 
experiment with this method before going further, and if it 
is not effective, some railing or fencing should be constructed. 
Plants and Planting 
Complete details of the gardening operations are furnished 
in the report of the Head Gardener hereto appended. 
Work has been concentrated during the past year on the 
more critical study, grouping, and labeling of the collections, 
and no special attempt has been made to increase the number 
of species grown, this number being indeed five or six hun- 
dred less than reported for 1904, the present number of 
species available for observation and study being about 
11,423. 
The areas of finished lawns and banks have been materially 
increased as construction work has proceeded. 
A site for the additional public conservatories has been 
agreed upon by the Board of Managers and by the Commis- 
sioner of Parks of the Borough of the Bronx, and plans for 
