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the Botanical Garden station of the New York Central Railroad and the 

 Mosholu Parkway entrance. This building includes, in addition to the 

 museum exhibits on the main floors, a large lecture hall for public lectures 

 in the basement; and the library, laboratories for instruction and research 

 and the herbarium on the upper floor. 



2. Conservatory Range I, a large and handsome glass house located 

 near the elevated railway station and containing plants from tropical 

 regions. 



3. Conservatory Range 2, a similar building situated on the eastern 

 side of the garden near the Allerton Avenue entrance. 



4. The mansion, a stone house built by the Lorillard family in 1856, 

 stands on the east side of the Bronx River, above the waterfall. It contains 

 meeting rooms, board rooms, horticultural laboratories, a lecture room, the 

 collections of the Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences, the office of the Sec- 

 retary of the Horticultural Society of New York, and the shops of the 

 garden, which are in the basement. 



B. Systematic plantations. Containing plants arranged in botanical 

 sequence for comparative study. 



5. The pinetum, or collection of cone-bearing trees, mostly ever- 

 greens, brought together on the hills and slopes on all sides of the con- 

 servatory range I, and in the space between that structure and the museum 

 building. The young white pine, red pine and white fir plantations are 

 located south of the herbaceous garden, near the Victory Grove of Douglas 

 spruce trees. 



6. The deciduous arboretum, or collection of trees which lose their 

 leaves in the autumn, located along nearly the entire eastern side of the 

 grounds from Pelham Avenue to Williamsbridge. The salicetum, or col- 

 lection of willows, occupies several acres on both sides of the river at the 

 north end of the grounds. 



7. The fruticetum, or collection of hardy shrubs, located on the plain 

 northeast of the museum building at the Woodlawn Road entrance and 

 extending northward into the north meadows; this collection is also arranged 

 by botanical relationship. The viticetum, or collection of shrubby vines, 

 is in the edge of the forest east of the economic garden, not far from the 

 museum building. 



8. The herbaceous garden, situated in the valley east of conservatory 

 Range I, near the southern boulevard entrance, containing collections of 

 hardy herbaceous plants arranged by botanical relationship. 



9. The morphological garden, just north of the herbaceous garden, 

 designed to illustrate forms of plants and plant structures studied in ele- 

 mentary botany. 



