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large range, partly constructed, near the Allerton Avenue 
entrance on the eastern side of the Garden. 
2. The largest botanical museum in the world, located 
near the Botanical Garden station of the New York Central 
Railroad and the Mosholu Parkway entrance. This build- 
ing includes 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. 
3. The pinetum, or collection of cone-bearing trees, mostly 
evergreens, brought together on the hills and slopes on all 
sides of the conservatories, range I, and in the space between 
that structure and the museum building. 
e herbaceous garden, situated in a valley east of 
the conservatories, range I, near the Southern Boulevard 
entrance, containing collections of hardy herbaceous plants, 
arranged by botanical relationship, and also a collection of 
similar plants, arranged to demonstrate elementary botany; 
the economic garden, a plantation designed to illustrate 
hardy plants whose products are directly useful to man, is 
installed in the northern part of the same valley. 
5. The fruticetum, or collection of hardy shrubs, located 
on the plain northeast of the museum building at the Wood- 
lawn Road entrance and extending northward into the 
north meadows; this collection is also arranged by botanical 
relationship. 
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. 
7. Extensive flower gardens at conservatory range I, 
along the path approach to this range from the Third 
Avenue Elevated Railway Station, and along the west 
border north to the Mosholu Parkway. The total length 
of flower beds is over one mile. 
8. 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 
