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The water supply has also been constructed in accordance 

 with the general plan and the system has been extended 

 from year to year as the development of the grounds 

 proceeded. 



The general planting plan includes provision for par- 

 tially surrounding the grounds, except at entrances, with 

 border screens. This planting has already been accom- 

 plished along the western and northern boundaries, and 

 partly along the southern and eastern boundaries. These 

 screens are composed of a very great variety of trees and 

 shrubs, variously grouped, and average about fifty feet in 

 width. 



A feature of this border screen is an old-fashioned flower 

 border, composed of herbaceous plants in large variety, 

 which extends from the 200th Street, or Bedford Park 

 Avenue, entrance northward to the New York Central 

 Railway Station and thence to the Mosholu Parkway en- 

 trance, and there is a similar plantation at the Elevated 

 Railway station; here herbaceous perennials are massed in 

 front of a belt of flowering shrubs which in turn are backed 

 by the trees of the border screen, and so selected that some 

 of them are in bloom throughout the season. Among the 

 plants used in this old-fashioned flower border are daffodils, 

 crocuses, irises, phloxes, paeonies, rose mallows, sun- 

 flowers, cone-flowers, coreopsis, columbines and many 

 others. 



Docentry 



In order to provide a method for viewing the collections 

 under guidance, an aid leaves the front door of the Museum 

 Building every week-day afternoon at 3 o'clock, to escort 

 all who may wish to accompany him. The routes are as 

 follows : 



Monday: Hemlock Forest, Mansion, and Herbaceous 

 Garden. Tuesday: Pinetum. Wednesday: Fruticetum 

 and North Meadows. Thursday: Deciduous Arboretum, 

 Nurseries and Propagating Houses, and Public Conserva- 

 tories, Range 2. Friday: Public Conservatories, Range 1. 

 Saturday: Museums. 



