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recently been made possible, by the approval of the Board of 
Managers, the Commissioner of Parks and the railroad company 
of detailed plans, which contemplate the removal of all poles and 
wires along this western boundary, the wires to be laid in an 
underground conduit, the top of which shall be at least three 
feet below the surface of the ground, partly on Garden land and 
crete piers, deemed good enough for its location, to be built 
along the entire boundary, except where it is rendered unneces- 
sary by the masonry driveway approaches at the Bedford Park 
Boulevard, the Mosholu Parkway and the Woodlawn Road, and 
by the Botanical Garden railway station. All this work is to 
be carried out by the railroad company without cost to the city 
or to the Garden; the plans provide that the railroad company 
shall be permitted to set the fence back two feet on Garden land 
for a distance of about 600 feet where the railroad’s right of way 
is narrow; the necessary authority for this is to be requested 
from the Sinking Fund Commission of the city. 
The southern boundary of the Garden reservation, adjoining 
land of Bronx Park west of the Bronx River, from the Southern 
Boulevard Entrance eastwardly through the woods to the Bronx 
Park Entrance has been fenced with red cedar posts and logs 
cut from dead or unsightly trees and saved for fencing purposes. 
This low rustic fence serves to indicate the southern boundary 
through the woodland; most of it was built during September 
of this year, a small part, south of the Herbaceous Garden, was 
constructed a few years ago; it is a protection to t mlock 
Grove and other woodlands, and may readily be se ee h 
eastwardly to the Bronx River, which in itself, without any 
construction, forms a good barrier boundary north from this 
point to the bend above the water-fall at the Lorillard Mansion. 
As to the northern and eastern boundaries of the Garden, it 
will not be practicable to permanently fence these before the 
boundary streets contemplated by the plan of the city are con- 
structed, certainly not for several years 
N.L. Britton. 
