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 considered. The distribution of the vast crowds of people 

 which may be expected to visit the Garden in the future, 

 the number visiting the gardens at Kew, England, having 

 reached hundreds of thousands in one daj, has necessitated 

 the placing of the main buildings and other principal features 

 of interest at considerable distances from each other. To 

 make possible the proper management and proper super- 

 vision of crowds, and to prevent them from becoming 

 dangerous to each other and destructive to the Garden, such 

 separation is a prime necessity. The questions of a proper 

 system of water supply, sewerage and drainage have been 

 given close attention, and the plan of water pipes has 

 received the unqualified approval of the Chief Engineer of 

 the Croton Aqueduct. Economic construction and main- 

 tenance have been carefully borne in mind throughout the 

 study. Horticultural and decorative treatment has been 

 abundantly provided for by the allotment of space, and will 

 be properly developed in the detailed landscape treatment. 

 About sixty-five acres of the two hundred and fifty will be 

 preserved intact as natural forest, including all the picturesque 

 portion of the Bronx Valley, and all the parts to be brought 

 under high cultivation are at present nearly treeless slopes 

 and meadows. 



The general plan is therefore adequate and satisfactory ; 

 it provides for fine artistic, architectural, decorative and 

 landscape effects, for the satisfactory prosecution of the 

 educational and scientific work of the institution, for the 

 preservation of the natural features, and for great additions 

 to their natural beauty. It permits a large degree of elas- 

 ticity in its development, which must require many years 

 for its completion, and provides abundant room for modifi- 

 cations in detail as may hereafter be desired. 



The Board of Managers intend to make the Botanical 



