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its parks and parkways will show the great importance of this 
connection, which will make it possible for pleasure driving to be. 
continuous on park roads from Spuyten Duyvil to Pelham 
Manor. ~- 
Some work remains to be done by the Park Department on the 
driveway and the Mosholu Parkway immediately west of the 
‘Garden, including the construction of the telford macadam drive- 
way between the railroad and Webster Avenue, but the earth 
filling is all in at that point, and the roadway can safely be laid 
on it early next y 
Under the same contract through which the retaining walls at 
the Mosholu Parkway approach are being built, work is going 
forward at the approach to the Woodlawn Avenue road in the 
northern part of the Garden, the masonry work there being well 
advanced, and the earth filling to carry the roadway being nearly 
all in place. It is expected that the masonry work, including the 
cut stone flight of steps at the end of the path at that point, will 
be completed in December. The heavy filling at this point 
necessitates eee the earth to settle for some months, but 
it shoul possible to finish the roadway there early next year. 
The sdairioadl earth filling required for this connection may be 
obtained at the rear of the Museum Building. 
The growth of the giant bamboo clump in the palm house this 
season has attracted much attention, several of the stalks having 
grown well up into the upper dome. Much interest was taken 
n observing the rapidity of the as of one of these stalks 
which made 65 feet in 95 days, or, an average of about 8 inches 
a day during that aes a Erapicaty. of growth so great that one 
could almost ‘see it gro in fact, by stretching a string across 
the tip of the young seer and coming back to i after an 
hour, a perceptible elongation was readily notice 
The total precipitation in the Garden cae Cue 1905, 
amounted to 2.87 inches. Maximum temperatures of 85° on the 
sth, 7634° on the 14th, 80° on the 16th, and 61° on the 24th 
were observed ; also minima of 38 14° on the 7th and 13th, 33%° 
on the 15th and 26° on the 31st. 
Although the thermometer registered one and a half degrees 
