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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 ; a considerable portion of the drainage 

 system still remains to be built. 



The water supply has also been built in accordance with 

 the general plan, and the system is being extended from 

 year to year as the development of the grounds proceeds. 



The general planting plan includes provision for com- 

 pletely surrounding the grounds, except at entrances, with 

 border screens. This planting has already been accom- 

 plished along the entire western and northern boundaries, and 

 partly along the southern boundary. These screens are 

 composed of a very great variety of trees and shrubs, var- 

 iously grouped, and average about fifty feet in width. It has 

 not been practicable hitherto to plant these screens along the 

 eastern border of the park on account of being obliged to 

 wait for the construction of the street known as the Bronx 

 Boulevard or Bronx Park East, the land for which is now 

 being secured by the city by condemnation proceedings. 



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 Railroad Sta- 

 tion and thence to the Mosholu Parkway entrance ; here 

 herbaceous perennials are massed in front of a belt of flower- 

 ing 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 garden are daffodils, crocuses, irises, 

 phloxes, paeonies, rose mallows, sun-flowers, cone-flowers, 

 coreopsis, columbines, and many others. 



Guides 



In order to provide a method for viewing the collections 

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



