JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. X. i January, 1909. No. 109. 
ENCLOSING THE GARDEN. 
Other than cheap and simple wire fences and rubble-stone walls, 
scarcely any work has been done toward the permanent fencing 
of any of the boundaries of the Garden until this year; the need 
of permanent barriers has been keenly felt, however, in order to 
reduce vandalism and the theft of plants, and plans for fences 
have been carefully considered by the Board of Managers. By 
means of a city appropriation for construction and improvement 
of the grounds, it became possible early this year to award a 
contract through the Department of Parks for the complete 
dary, adjoining the land of Fordham University, from the ter- 
minal Bronx Park Station of the Elevated Railway, easterly to the 
Southern Boulevard Entrance, a distance of about 2,000 feet. 
is contract was awarded to Galardi and Guidone, the lowest 
bidders, for $16,000, being about $8 a running foot, the limit set 
y the Executive Committee of the Board of Managers when 
approving plans for the fence, drawn by Mr. John R. Brinley, 
landscape engineer of the Garden. 
The structure, completed in September, has, for most of the 
distance, a rubble-stone base averaging about two feet in height, 
on a three foot stone foundation, surmounted by an iron fence 
about seven feet high which is broken into bays by square piers 
with the same granite; along the approach to the Elevated Rail- 
way Station the stone base was dispensed with and the wall of — 
