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by your Board; and the Plans Commission on reéxamination 
has strongly sustained this same arrangement. 
3. The allotment of the grounds gives: 
(a) For the buildings, with their decorative approaches 
and surroundings, about,.......... .oececcccec eens cane en es 25 acres 
(b) For the pines and other coniferous trees, say go to 
100 species .1e. 30 acres 
(c) For the deciduous trees, about 275 species 7O acres 
(d) For natural forest, mostly undisturbed, including the 
Hemlock Grove 65 acres 
(ce) For shrubs and small trees 15 acres 
(f£) For herbaceous grounds for plants arranged scientifi- 
cally 8 acres 
g) Bog garden at the northerly end, 5 acres 
(h) Lakes and ponds, exclusive of the Bronx River,...... 6 acres 
(i) Meadows at the northerly end, reserved,............... IO acres 
(j) Various provisions for aquatics, vines, rockeries, etc. 
This affords a satisfactory division of our allotted area ; 
and if more ground should be desired for forestry, as has 
been recommended by some experts, the adjacent lands to the 
south would afford a connected extension of the forest 
grounds, either under the administration of the Park Com- 
missioners or under the Garden management, should their 
administration of it be desired. 
The Committee deem it unnecessary to refer specifically 
to the many other points so fully treated in the Report of the 
Plans Commission. We are satisfied that the general plan 
submitted is adequate and satisfactory, and in all material re- 
spects as good ascan be framed. Its provisions for fine artis- 
tic, architectural, decorative and landscape effects are obvious. 
If the ground is studied with map in hand, the plan speaks 
for itself and is its own vindication. Without such study the 
plan cannot be properly appreciated. 
It is most gratifying, and a matter of congratulation, to 
observe that almost every part of these diversified grounds 
can be, and has been, availed of, and appropriated to the 
most apt and beautiful uses; and that this is done not only 
