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8. Decorative Grounds. 
The tracts about the buildings and most of the entrances, 
some 25 acres in all, are treated from a purely decorative 
standpoint, with no attempt at scientific classification. The 
details of the planting of these areas can be worked out to 
the best advantage after the roads and paths are built and 
the buildings erected. The general features proposed are in- 
dicated on the plan. 
9. Pinetum. 
It is recommended that the southwestern portion of the 
tract be devoted to the collection of coniferous trees, the soil 
and exposure of this land being admirably adapted to their 
successful cultivation. It is very little wooded at the present 
time, and the tree growth now upon it is, for the most part, 
unimportant. We have designated a number of specimen 
trees now standing there for retention. ‘The pinetum will be 
intersected by the Southern Boulevard and by the proposed 
driveway and path system south of the Southern Boulevard. 
It will be bounded on the east by the area recommended for 
the herbaceous grounds, and on the north by the decorative 
grounds about Bedford Park Station and in front of the Mu- 
seum Building. We find that between go and 100 species of 
coniferous trees can probably be successfully cultivated in our 
latitude, and the tract admits of placing these in a nearly 
natural sequence, allowing for from two to five permanent in- 
dividuals, the larger ones to stand not less than 100 feet apart. 
In the planting of the pinetum it is recommended that a num- 
ber of trees, at least four times in excess of the total number 
planned as permanent, be planted, in order that a selection of 
the best individuals may be made as the plantation grows. 
The detailed grouping and relative positions of the different 
species are indicated upon the plan. The area taken is about 
30 acres. 
10. Deciduous Arboretum. 
We recommend that the part of the tract east of the Bronx 
