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General Plan 
A. Burtpines 
The principal buildings open to the public are: 
1. The largest botanical museum building in the world, 
located near 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 lave lecture hall for public lectures 
in the basement; and the library, laboratories for in- 
struction and io. and the herbarium, on the upper 
oor. 
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 more than 
half finished, situated on the eastern side of the Garden 
near the Allerton Avenue entrance. 
4. e 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 
oellections of the Bronx Society of Arts and Scenes. the 
office of the Secretary of the Horticultural Society of New 
York, and the shops of the Garden, which are in its base- 
ment. 
B. SysTEMATIC PLANTATIONS 
Containing plants arranged in botanical sequence for 
comparative study. 
s. The pinetum, or collection of cone-bearing trees, 
mostly evergreens, brought together on the hills and 
slopes on all sides of conservatory 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 
