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entrance, at the Woodlawn road entrance, and at the ap- 

 proach to the Elevated Railway station, and vines have 

 been planted at the bases of these walls which partly clothe 

 them with foliage. The Bronx Boulevard, bounding the 

 Garden to the east, is supported along part of its length 

 by a high rubble stone retaining wall. 



The plan of the driveway and path systems called for the 

 construction of six bridges; three of these, first, the lake 

 bridge, crossing the valley of the lakes near the museum 

 building; second, the long bridge, which carries the drive- 

 way across the valley of the Bronx River north of the hem- 

 lock forest; and, third, the upper bridge which crosses the 

 Bronx River at the northern end of the Garden, have been 

 carried out in masonry arches from designs by Mr. John R. 

 Brinley, landscape engineer of the Garden. A unique boul- 

 der foot-bridge of five arches, just at the northern end of the 

 hemlock forest was built from designs by the same engineer. 

 The concrete-steel bridge spanning the gorge of the Bronx 

 below the waterfall was built by the Park Department; 

 and the sixth bridge in the plan is a foot-bridge, temporarily 

 built of wood, ultimately designed in concrete, crossing the 

 Bronx River in the north meadows. 



The bridge dedicated to Linnaeus, which carries the Pel- 

 ham Parkway across the Bronx, is appropriately located 

 between the Botanical Garden and the Zoological Park. 



The park treatment further contemplates the planting of 

 shade trees where these are needed along the driveways, 

 and much of this has been done, a great many kinds of trees 

 having been used, and many shrub plantations have been 

 set out, especially at roadway and path intersections, 

 utilizing considerable numbers of the same kinds of shrubs 

 at different points. 



The drainage of the grounds has been carried out in ac- 

 cordance with a well-studied original plan, which provides 

 outlets for the surface drainage for the most part either into 

 the lakes or into the river, only a small portion of it being 

 taken into the sewers; only a small portion of the drainage 

 system still remains to be built. 



