GENERAL INFORMATION 



Some of the leading features of The New York Botanical Garden 

 are: 



Four hundred acres of beautifully diversified land in the northern part of the 

 City of New York, through which flows the Bronx River. A native hemlock 

 forest is one of the features of the tract. 



Plantations of thousands of native and introduced trees, shrubs, and flowering 

 plants. 



Gardens, including a beautiful rose garden, a rock garden of rock-loving 

 plants, and fern and herbaceous gardens. 



Greenhouses, containing thousands of interesting plants from America and 

 foreign countries. 



Flower shows throughout the year — in the spring, summer, and autumn dis- 

 plays of narcissi, daffodils, tulips, irises, peonies, roses, lilies, water-lilies, gladioli, 

 dahlias, and chrysanthemums; in the winter, displays of greenhouse-blooming 

 plants. 



A museum, containing exhibits of fossil plants, existing plant families, local 

 plants occurring within one hundred miles of the City of New York, and the 

 economic uses of plants. 



An herbarium, comprising more than one million specimens of American and 

 foreign species. 



Exploration in different parts of the United States, the West Indies, Central 

 and South America, for the study and collection of the characteristic flora. 



Scientific research in laboratories and in the field into the diversified problems 

 of plant life. 



A library of botanical literature, comprising more than 34,000 books and num- 

 erous pamphlets. 



Public lectures on a great variety of botanical topics, continuing throughout 

 the year. 



Publications on botanical subjects, partly of technical scientific, and partly 

 of popular, interest. 



The education of school children and the public through the above features 

 and the giving of free information on botanical, horticultural, and forestal subjects. 



The Garden is dependent upon an annual appropriation by the 



City of New York, private benefactions and membership fees. It 



possesses now nearly two thousand members, and applications for 



membership are always welcome. The classes of membership are: 



Benefactor single contribution $25,000 



Patron single contribution 5,000 



Fellow for Life single contribution 1,000 



Member for Life single contribution 250 



Fellowship Member annual fee lOO 



Sustaining Member annual fee 25 



Annual Member annual fee 10 



The following is an approved form of bequest: 



/ hereby bequeath to The New York Botanical Garden incorporated under the Laws 

 oj Neiv York, Chapter 285 oj 1891, the sum of 



AH requests for further information should be sent to 



The New York Botanical Garden 



bronx park, new york city 



