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Construction work is going forward on the fence along the 
southern boundary of the Garden from the Elevated Railway 
Station to the Southern Boulevard, on the property line adjoining 
the land of Fordham University, under a contract of the Park 
Department with Guidone & Galardi. The rubble stone base is 
now nearly completed, many of the piers built, and itis expected 
that the iron fence will be in place and the work finished by mid- 
summer. This handsome fence replaces an old stone wall, much 
of which was used in the foundations for the new structure ; its 
completion will make it possible to plant the strip between the 
path near this boundary line and the fence, in the autumn, after 
a small amount of necessary grading shall have been done. 
Meteorology for May.— The total precipitation recorded for 
May was 7.36 inches. Maximum temperatures were recorded 
on the 27th; also minimum temperatures of 41.5° on the 5th, 
48° on the 13th, 50.5° on the rgth, and 53.5° on the 2gth. 
