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Planting. 
Borders. The planting of a border along the New York and 
Harlem Railroad, from the Southern Boulevard to the north- 
west corner of the Garden, was begunin April, 1896, and con- 
tinued in November; a primary screen of trees has thus 
been established along this whole line of about 3,000 feet, 
broken by the space planned for a plaza in front of the Bed- 
ford Park Station, and by the western end of the proposed 
lake site. A similar primary screen of trees has been planted 
along the northern border, from the New York and Harlem 
Railroad to the northeast corner of the Garden; and the 
eastern border has been partially planted from the northeast 
corner, south for about 500 feet. Thirty-six different species 
of trees have been used in this primary planting. The tem- 
porary nurseries supplied many of the trees, the remainder 
were purchased. 
NVursertes. Thetemporary nursery, established east of the 
Bronx in the fall of 1895, has been trebled in size, and another 
one located east of it and near the eastern border of the Garden, 
at the site suggested for a permanent nursery by the Plans 
Commission, has also been planted. The area occupied by 
the two together is about one acre, and they now contain, 
together with the borders, considered as additional temporary 
nurseries, about 11,300 trees, shrubs and perennial herbs, 
representing about 725 species, the material having mainly 
been purchased, though considerable has been raised from 
seed, or collected, or given. A portion of the marsh land 
near the northwestern corner of the Garden has been devoted 
to a temporary bog nursery. 
Seeds and roots of about twenty-five species of forest herbs 
and shrubs have been planted in the woods at several places. 
A complete card catalogue of the species in the whole 
Garden tract, both wild and introduced, is being made. 
Care of Plantations. 
The western border and the temporary nursery have been 
kept free from weeds by repeated hoeing, and many of the 
