on the southwesterly side of the valley. A fourth would be to 

 remove the road entirely from the valley by resorting to the old 

 road line just to the northeast of Conservatory Range No. i. 



Upon the whole, as well as we can judge without working out 

 thoroughly the problems discussed in the next section of this 

 Report, it would seem that number three or number two of the 

 above alternatives would hold the best promise of first-rate 

 ultimate results. These two are roughly indicated as alternatives 

 on Map A. 



Under the circumstances, clearly, no considerable permanent 

 changes should be undertaken in the area between and surround- 

 ing the Museum and Conservatory Range No. i until a satisfac- 

 tory general plan for this whole area has been worked out and 

 agreed upon, unless they are such as would surely fit in with 

 any one of the above mentioned alternatives. 



Only one other additional road for interior circulation has oc- 

 curred to us as at all desirable, and we are not yet entirely con- 

 fident that it is worth while. The road now under construction 

 from the Rose Garden to the Allerton Avenue Entrance is in part 

 ugly and positively dangerous in alignment and grade. The 

 most objectionable points are where it crosses the Lake Valley 

 and near the undeveloped Arboretum Entrance. It is apparently 

 possible to lay out a substitute for this section of the road on 

 good lines and grades, by swinging off from this newly built 

 road at a depression southwest of the Propagating Houses, 

 crossing by an arch over the ravine east of the Lorillard Mansion 

 and from there to the Rose Garden following approximately the 

 old Lorillard approach road. In this position the road would 

 overlook, without intruding upon, the Landscape Garden dis- 

 cussed in Part III, Section 4, and would make it possible to by- 

 pass or entirely to eliminate that section of the newly constructed 

 road which now injures by its embankment the Lake Valley and 

 which has the only steep and dangerous gradient and curve in 

 the Garden road-system. 



There are various other adjustments of roads and road-junc- 

 tions, mostly of a minor sort but important in the aggregate, 

 which ought to be made in order to adapt what were designed 

 as park drives for horse-drawn vehicles to use as automobile 

 roads in a botanical garden; but we will here mention only one, 

 the very confusing junction in the Fruticetum north of the Water 

 Gardens. This ought to be radically changed and simplified for 

 the convenience and safety of traffic, and we believe it can at 

 the same time be so handled in connection with the readjustment 

 of the Fruticetum planting as to improve the appearance of 

 this part of the Garden very materially. 



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