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3- The pinetum, or collection of cone-bearing trees, mostly 

 evergreens, which is being 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. 



4. The herbaceous grounds, situated in a valley east of the 

 conservatories, range 1, near the Southern Boulevard en- 

 trance, 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 being 

 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 rela- 

 tionship. 



6. The deciduous arboretum, or collection of trees which 

 lose their leaves in the autumn, located along the entire east- 

 ern side of the grounds from south to north. 



In addition to these artificial features, the following natural 

 features are of special interest : 



7. The hemlock grove, a forest of the Canadian hemlock 

 spruce, clothing the hills between the museum building and 

 the Bronx River and covering about forty acres, considerable 

 portions of it being primeval. 



8. The gorge of the Bronx River, extending south from 

 the waterfall at the Lorillard Mansion, along the edge of the 

 hemlock grove to the southern boundary of the Garden. 



9. The north meadows and river woods along the Bronx 

 River from the northern end of the hemlock grove to the 

 northern end of the Garden. 



1. The Conservatories 



Range No. 1. 



This great glass-house, located but a short distance from 



the terminus of the Third Avenue Elevated Railroad, is 5 1 2 



