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Much of the forest, grading and drainage work done has been 

 accomplished, in part, through cooperation with the New York 

 Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, by means 

 of an arrangement entered into with that association early in 

 March, and still in force. The association sends about twenty 

 men to the Garden each day, the same men on alternate days of 

 the week, and supplies funds for their daily wages. The men are 

 scattered around on various pieces of work mixed in with trained 

 laborers and gardeners, work the same hours, and are discharged 

 if inefficient, others sent by the Association taking their places. 

 This experiment has been of the very greatest interest to the 

 officials of the Garden and of the Association for Improving the 

 Condition of the Poor, inasmuch as it has proven to be an ef- 

 fective way of having necessary work done and at the same time 

 distributing money to persons very much in need of it. 



The Lorillard Mansion, picturesquely located just east of the 

 Bronx River and high above it, comes to the uses of the Garden 

 with the additional land. The house is well and substantially 

 built of stone and dates from 1856. It needs painting and con- 

 siderable carpenter work to put it in repair and will be very 

 useful for a variety of purposes. Near it stand a large and fine 

 Paulownia tree, probably planted about the time the house was 

 built, and a very fine and interesting weeping beech. There 

 are many other large and fine trees within the new reservation. 



X. L. Brittox, 



Director-in-Chief. 



