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5. Paths. 
The system of paths has been designed with a view to ef- 
fect the ready distribution of crowds of people to the several 
portions of the Garden, and their width varies from 10 to 25 
feet. It is assumed that it will be desirable to keep people to 
the paths as much as possible through the decorative grounds, 
but that this restriction will not be rigidly enforced, for the 
present at least, through the pinetum, the deciduous arbore- 
tum, the fruticetum, or the forest areas; in these tracts there 
will be no immediate danger of destruction by permitting 
visitors to wander at will, but experience has shown that, 
even with the permission, there is a strong tendency to keep 
to the paths when they are once built. This consideration 
has led us not to propose as extensive a path system through 
these portions of the ground as we should have done if a 
more rigid restriction to the paths had been necessary. Two 
features of the path system demand special notice: 
1. The straight formal approach to the front of the Museum 
Building, where a central path and two lateral parallel nar- 
rower paths are suggested, the central one to be used as a 
driveway on special occasions, but ordinarily as a walk. 
2. The broad curving path connecting the Museum Build- 
ing with the First Norticultural House. 
It is recommended that the whole path system, with the 
exception of that portion of it extending through the Hemlock 
Reservation be also built on the Telford-McAdam plan, with 
about five inches of larger stone and three inches of smaller 
stone on top, including about one inch of screenings. The 
paths through the Hemlock Grove should be of gravel. 
Further allusion to the position of paths will be made in 
discussing the general features of the deciduous arboretum, 
the pinetum and the fruticetum. 
6. Buildings and their Locations. 
Acting on general instructions from your Committee on 
Plans, the Commission has provided locations for buildings as 
follows : 
