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ganization has taken place in the last three years, and it has now 

 entered upon the discharge of its chief functions. 



The Garden comprises two hundred and fifty acres of land in Bronx 

 Park, in the City of New York, which was set aside for that purpose 

 by the Department of Public Parks in 1895. A fireproof museum 

 building of stone, brick and terra cotta, 308 by 110 feet, has been 

 erected for the Garden by the city in the western part of the grounds, 

 near the Bedford Park Station of the New York Central Eailroad. 

 The building has a basement floor and three stories, with a total 



Map of the Garden. 



floor space of nearly two acres, and a window area equal to half that 

 of the floor area. The basement contains a lecture theater capable of 

 seating seven hundred people, two large exhibition halls, preparation 

 rooms, constant temperature laboratory, offices and storerooms. The 

 first floor is devoted to a collection of economic plants, and the tem- 

 porary installation of useful products in the way of foods, drugs, tim- 

 bers, woods, fibers, gums, waxes, resins, oils, sugars, starches, poisons, 

 utensils, etc., gives hints as to the great diversity of uses that may 

 be made of vegetable products, together with an illustration of their 

 method of preparation and their derivation. 



