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from Crotona Park; there are also driveway entrances at 
200th Street, convenient for carriages coming from Jerome 
Avenue; at Newell Avenue, at the northern end of the 
Garden, for carriages coming from the north; at Bleecker 
Street on the eastern side of the Garden for carriages coming 
from the east; and at the Woodlawn Road, convenient for 
carriages coming from Yonkers, and from other points west 
and northwest of the Garden. 
Purposes 
The New York Botanical Garden was established by an 
Act of the Legislature of the state of New York passed in 
1891 and amended in 1894 ‘‘ for the purpose of establishing 
and maintaining a Botanical Garden and Museum and Ar- 
boretum therein, for the collection and culture of plants, 
flowers, shrubs and trees, the advancement of botanical 
science and knowledge, and the prosecution of original 
researches therein and in kindred subjects, for affording 
instruction in the same, for the prosecution and exhibition of 
ornamental and decorative horticulture and gardening, and 
for the entertainment, recreation and instruction of the 
people.” 
General Plan 
The general plan of development includes : 
1. The largest conservatories in America, for the cultivation 
of plants of tropical regions, located near the entrance at the 
elevated railway station. A second very large greenhouse is 
planned for construction near the Bleecker Street entrance 
on the eastern side of the Garden. 
2. The largest botanical museum in the world, located 
near the Bronx Park station of the New York Central Rail- 
road and the Mosholu Parkway entrance. This building 
includes a large lecture hall for public lectures in the base- 
ment; and the library, laboratories for instruction and re- 
search, and the herbarium, on the upper floor. 
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 great greenhouse, and in the space 
between that house and the museum building. 
