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2. Public Conservatory Range 1 
This great glasshouse, located but a short distance from 
the zooth Street Station of the Third Avenue Elevated 
Railway, is 512 feet in length, with a central dome about 
go feet in height, and wings extending from the main range 
in such a way as to form a court open to the southwest. 
The area under glass is about one acre. The building 
stands on a terrace 5 feet in height, approached by six 
flights of cut granite steps connecting with the path and 
driveway approaches. The house contains fifteen com- 
partments, separated by glass partitions and doors. 
Fig. 1. Ground plan of Conservatory Range 1. 
House No. r contains palms of numerous species from all 
parts of tropical and warm regions, both of the Old World 
and the New. Of West Indian palms, the collection con- 
tains the royal palm of the West Indies, Florida, and 
Panama; an elegant plant of the corozo palm (Acrocomia 
aculeata) of Jamaica, Porto Rico and the Windward Islands; 
and the cocoanut palm, planted in all tropical countries for 
its fruit and for the numerous uses to which its fiber, wood, 
and leaves are applied—it is not definitely known that 
the cocoanut palm is a native of the West Indies, and where 
in the tropical regions it actually originated is uncertain. 
Other tropical American palms are illustrated by the 
silvertop palm (Coccothrinax argentea), of Florida and the 
