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1. A plan showing the positions, and the amount of space 
occupied by the several elements ; and 
2. A map showing the proposed systems of subsoil and 
surface drainage, grading, water supply and sewerage. 
It was determined to submit the design in this divided form, 
in the belief that a single plan, in which all these features 
were embodied, would be too complicated for ready reference. 
1. General Considerations. 
Your Commission has endeavored to preserve the natural 
features of the tract so far as possible without prejudicing 
the location of driveways, buildings and the scheme of 
planting, and it is a matter of congratulation, we believe, 
that all the general natural features of the area have been 
found to lend themselves to the artificial improvements without 
any loss of beauty or effect. Portions of the tract are abun- 
dantly supplied with trees, and where the driveways are plan- 
ned through these portions it has been found necessary to 
sacrifice certain of the trees, but every effort has been made, 
by studying each individual tree affected, and by establishing 
the driveways so as to avoid perfect and healthy individuals, 
to save these, while poorer ones have been selected for re- 
moval. Ata very few points the grades necessary, and the 
rounded character of the curves which are imperative in a 
public park, have necessitated the selection of trees for re- 
moval, which we would have been glad to retain, but the 
number so selected is so insignificant, as compared with the 
total number, that we feel that they need not be seriously con- 
sidered, especially as all of them are abundantly represented 
at other points in the Garden. 
Access to the site of the Garden is now obtained: 
1. By means of the Harlem division of the New York 
Central & Hudson River Railway at the Bedford Park Station, 
located immediately on the western margin of the Garden. 
2. By a trolley line on Webster Avenue, one block west of 
the western edge of the Garden, extending north to a point 
