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commissioner may apply such sum as shall be fixed by the 
board of estimate and apportionment for the keeping, preserva- 
tion and exhibition of the collections placed or contained in 
buildings or institutions now situated or hereafter erected in the 
parks, squares or public places under the jurisdiction of such 
co mission:r 
§625. The commissioner for the borough of The Bronx is 
hereby authorized and directed to carry out the ee con- 
rac made by and between the department of parks of the 
corporation heretofore known as the mayor, aldermen aa com- 
monalty of the city of New York and the board of managers of 
the corporation known as the New York Botanical Garden pur- 
suant to the provisions of chapter two hundred and eighty-five 
of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled ‘An 
act to provide for the establishment of a botanic garden and 
museum and arboretum in Bronx park in The City of New York 
and to incorporate the New York Botanical Garden for carrying 
on the same,” as amended by chapter one hundred and three of 
the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-four, which contract 
provides for the allotting and setting apart for the uses of said 
garden of two hundred and fifty acres of land or less in the 
northern part of Bronx Park as shown upon a certain map 
thereof numbered five hundred and sixty-eight, and signed by 
Messrs. Vaux and Parsons, and filed with the former department 
of public parks of the corporation known as the mayor, aldermen 
and commonalty of the city of New York 
THE ROSE PLANTATION 
(WiTH PLATE CXXXV) 
This rose bed, with a length ae about 250 feet a a width of 
8 feet, is at the foot of the easter vatory range I; 
it has an exposure to the ie the terrace and conserva- 
tories cutting off the bleak winds from the north and west, the 
hill to the east protecting it from the winds coming from that 
