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

 public every day in the year without any charge whatever. 



24. Entrances 



The Garden has 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. Allerton Avenue. 9. Bronx River Park- 

 way. 10. Woodlawn Road. 



25. Roads and Paths 



An elaborate series of driveways provides several miles of 

 Telford-Macadam roads, most of which are now con- 

 structed. 



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 

 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 rubblc-stone retaining wall. 



