from the hollow below the Iris Garden up over the ridge and 

 down to the junction of Southern Boulevard and Pelham Park- 

 way, could advantageously be eliminated. To do so would cer- 

 tainly be advantageous to the great majority of people who visit 

 the Garden on foot, and would remove one element of danger 

 and complexity at the important traffic-junction where it now 

 makes a five-corner intersection. It would also facilitate a more 

 useful and more beautiful treatment of the Iris Garden unit 

 through which the road now runs. 



On the other hand, certain additional road construction is 

 necessary to complete a satisfactory system of interior circula- 

 tion for the Garden. 



One such addition of unquestionable importance is a link 

 across the river somewhere south of the Gorge, so as to avoid 

 the necessity of going outside of the Garden enclosure into 

 Pelham Parkway and back again into the enclosure in passing 

 between the southeasterly and southwesterly parts of the land. 

 In our opinion such a road and bridge, while ultimately neces- 

 sary, are far less urgent than many other improvements. But 

 it is extremely important to fix the precise location and grades 

 of such a future road because of its intimate relation to the 

 design of all the adjacent areas, within which improvements in 

 maintenance, in planting, in the path system, etc., are needed. 

 These should all be directed toward a well-studied landscape 

 treatment into which this road will fit perfectly whenever it is 

 built. In other words, the design of this road and bridge ought to 

 be part of a design for the permanent treatment of the two land- 

 scape units to the north of it - — namely the Hemlock Gorge 

 unit and the suggested Landscape Garden unit — and of the 

 picnic grove unit to the south of it; and no permanent improve- 

 ments should be attempted in any of these areas until the plans 

 for all have been worked out with a considerable degree of 

 finality. Our present impression is that the best line for the road 

 would be, very roughly, as indicated on Map A. This shows 

 alternative lines for the easterly end of the road, choice between 

 which can not be made without working out the details with 

 much care. In any case the road ought not to be permitted to 

 encroach upon the natural southern and southeastern limits oi 

 the topographic unit suggested for development as a Landscape 

 Garden. And probably in any case an underpass should be 

 provided for a foot-path connecting that unit with the picnic 

 grove unit. 



The proposal of a west-side parkway for through-traffic out- 

 lined at the beginning of this portion of the Report, together with 



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