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have been completed during the year, and the path-system 
of the herbaceous grounds has been connected with a path 
leading southward through Bronx Park to Pelham Avenue, 
constructed by the Department of Parks. 
The paths on the terrace of the public conservatories were 
completed according to plan except at the points where 
steps will lead to the lower level, and around the sites of the 
tanks for aquatic plants. 
A path ten feet in width and about 500 feet long has been 
built from the West 200th Street entrance at the bridge over 
the New York and Harlem Railway to the approach to the 
elevated railway station. 
All these paths have been built in the most substantial 
manner with a Telford foundation eight or nine inches thick 
carefully laid, hammered and rolled, and surfaced with about 
two inches of trap rock screenings. 
The path planned to parallel the driveway on the easterly 
side of the museum building, northward toward the frutice- 
tum, has been partially graded for about 400 feet, and stone 
assembled along it for the Telford foundation. 
Partly under the direction of the Garden and partly under 
that of the Commissioner of Parks, the driveway-system north 
and east of the museum building, on both sides of the Bronx 
River, has been partially constructed, and this work is still 
in progress; it is expected that it will be completed, together 
with a portion of the accompanying path-system during 1904. 
The work has been prosecuted at a number of different 
points, in accordance with the general plan for the develop- 
ment of the Garden, the grading being nearly all done and 
about one half of the Telford foundation being laid up. 
When completed this driveway-system will connect with the 
Mosholu Parkway to the west, with Newall Avenue, leading 
north, and with Bleecker Street leading to the White Plains. 
road on the east. 
Bridges. 
Plans for the single-arched concrete, steel and stone bridge 
to carry the main driveway over the Bronx River at the 
