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Annual Report 
each side of the drive, for a distance of six hundred feet, had to 
be re-estabhshed, and much of the sod Hfted and relaid. A new 
system of drainage, with additional catch-basins and a new water 
line with hose-boxes for sprinkling were installed for the whole 
distance indicated above. The old, decayed and dangerous wooden 
steps near the bridge leading to the Art Museum were removed 
and a series of stone steps was substituted ; the rearranging of 
the grade of the slope was left in an unfinished condition for 
this year, owing to unfavorable weather conditions. In the spring 
of 1911 work at this place will be completed and the whole hill- 
side planted. 
A large cellar and cistern on Cellar Hill, unsightly and dan- 
gerous menaces for years, were filled with approximately four 
hundred yards of dirt, and 200 additional loads of soil were dis- 
tributed around the roots of the various trees, some of which 
were not only exposed but undermined, and were being broken 
off and destroyed. 
Two beds, four feet wide and 30 feet long, were dug out, 
suitable soil hauled, and put in condition for the use of the 
Kindergarten Departments of the public schools, a useful and 
beneficial work, much appreciated and enjoyed. 
The unsightly row of white and Carolina poplar trees along 
the east side of Gilbert Avenue, very badly infested with San 
Jose scale, was taken down and replaced with sycamores, to 
correspond with the plantations on the west side when grown ; 
eighty-six trees were planted on Gilbert Avenue and five on 
Elsinore Avenue Much time was spent in trimming and pruning 
trees, and many dead ones were removed. Spraying, in its 
season, was attended to and, with the exception of wild cherry, 
Eden Park is free from insect pests. 
Much time and labor were spent in an effort to find a number 
of leaks in the lakes on Luray Avenue at the upper end of Eden 
Park, some of which were discovered and stopped. The middle 
division was puddled with brick clay, the overflow from the upper 
and lower lakes was raised and made level, and a cement wall 
seventy-two feet long and seven feet deep was constructed on 
the southeast side, in order to dam up an old culvert and to 
become a part of the retaining embankment. The lower lake will 
