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the rest needed from the grading operations behind the museum 

 building. 



At the field meeting of the Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences 

 held at the Garden, July 21, Dr. Britton called the attention of 

 the members present to a large number of the native trees in the 

 grounds and spoke of their care. The native tree flora of the 

 Garden comprises nearly fifty species. 



The driveway approach at the Mosholu Parkway entrance was 

 completed on July 25, a steamroller having been hired, and the 

 entire driveway from the New York and Harlem Railroad Station 

 to this point and eastwardly around the upper lake nearly to the 

 west end of the Long Bridge across the Bronx River was com- 

 pleted on August 1. 



Mr. Walgrove, the Commissioner of Parks, has made applica- 

 tion to the Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, 

 for sufficient lamps to light this portion of the driveway system. 

 The continuation of the driveway system over the Long Bridge 

 now only awaits the arrival of another boat-load of broken stone 

 and screenings for its final surfacing. The telford macadam 

 driveway system of the parks of the Bronx from the southern 

 end of the Spuyten Duyvil driveway through Van Cortlandt 

 Park, Mosholu Parkway, Bronx Park, Pelham Parkway, and 

 Pelham Bay Park, is now complete with the exception of the 

 short piece between Webster Avenue and the New York and 

 Harlem Railroad in the Mosholu Parkway, just west of the 

 Garden ; the dirt filling needed here was made two years ago 

 and the Park Department is now preparing to pave the road at 

 this point. 



In the Journal for September, 1904, an account appeared, 

 with illustrations, of an Agave which flowered about the middle 

 of August of that year. Material of this plant was then sent to 

 Dr. Wm. Trelease, who pronounced it to be Agave Palmeri. Dr. 

 MacDougal secured two plants of this species in 1902. The 

 first of these flowered as indicated above, the second one is now 

 (August 1) finishing flowering and is perfecting fruit. In associ- 

 ation with the plant of Agave Palmeri is a plant of Agave Leche- 

 gidlla Torr. This species was originally described from material 



