(no) 



available firewood obtained is burned in the heating plants 

 of the smaller buildings, and the use of coal is thus reduced. 

 In order to keep these woodland tracts as typical illustra- 

 tions of eastern United States forests, no extraneous plants 

 have been brought into them, except in one small area on a 

 bank just east of the fruticetum, where many herbaceous 

 woodland species not native of the region have been planted. 



14. Park Features 



The whole plan of the development of the Garden has 

 been designed in such a manner as to include all the features 

 of a public park, and it has been carried out in close coopera- 

 tion with successive park commissioners and engineers of 

 the Borough of the Bronx. The grounds are open to the 

 public every day in the year without any charge whatever. 

 An elaborate series of driveways provides several miles of 

 Telford-Macadam roads, most of which are now constructed 

 with suitable entrances at ten points as follows: 



I. Mosholu Parkway. 2. Bedford Park Avenue. 3. 

 Southern Boulevard. 4. Iris Garden. 5. Linnaean Bridge. 

 6. Mansion Approach. 7. Arboretum entrance (not yet 

 completed). 8. AMerton Avenue. 9. Bronx River Park- 

 way. 10. Woodlawn Road. 



Paths located so as to lead to all the principal features 

 are included in the plan, with an aggregate length of over 

 fifteen miles and approximately three-fourths of this system 

 has already been built, and there are several miles of forest 

 trails. 



All the roads and paths have been located so as to do no 

 damage to the natural features of the grounds, particular 

 care having been taken to save all possible standing trees 

 and to avoid disturbing natural slopes except in the im- 

 mediate neighborhood of the large buildings, where con- 

 siderable grading has been necessary, but even here the 

 study has been to adjust the new surfaces so that they shall 

 merge imperceptibly into the original ones. Ornamental 

 masonry retaining walls, made necessary by the 'grades of 

 the roadways, have been built at the Mosholu Parkway 



