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tenance of the institution has been accomplished for the most 
part by the annual appropriation made by the city for this 
purpose, which was $80,000; the amount appropriated for 
1907 is $75,000. 
The total membership of the Garden is now 1,135, an in 
crease during the year of 6. 
Construction of Roads and Paths 
The approach to the Mosholu Parkway entrance, which 
was partially constructed during 1905, was completed in July, 
1906, and the driveway and paths were thrown open to the 
public as soon as the Park Department completed the por- 
tion of the parkway between the railroad bridge and the 
bridge across Webster Avenue in the autumn. As had been 
foreseen, this connection with Van Courtlandt Park at once 
increased the number of vehicles passing through the grounds 
and this increase was continuous until cold weather. 
At the Woodlawn Road approach the masonry retaining 
walls and cut stone steps for the path connection were com- 
pleted in the spring. The additional filling necessary there 
to carry the driveway was put in place during the spring and 
summer, and after having been given several months time to 
settle down, the driveway was paved, surfaced in a temporary 
way and thrown open to the public the first week in December. 
It will be necessary to complete the surfacing of this road in 
the spring, inasmuch as the supply of traprock screenings 
available was insufficient to entirely complete it, and several 
thousand cubic yards of earth filling are still necessary there 
to bring the northern slope of this embankment into a finished 
condition. Owing to certain defects in the masonry retaining 
walls the Finance Department of the city has refused to pay 
the entire amount of this contract to the contractor, and his 
claim is still in process of adjustment; these defects consist 
in wider masonry joints at several points than the contract 
permitted and also in slight deviations from the plan in the 
setting of some of the stones of the parapet. 
The driveway leading from the Mosholu Parkway approach 
