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Visitors coming by the Subway change to the Elevated Railway 
at 149th Street and Third Avenue. Those coming by the New 
York, Westchester and Boston Railway change at 180th Street 
for cross-town trolley, transferring north at Third Avenue. 
CONFERENCE NOTES FOR FEBRUARY 
The ice presented at the February conference of the 
eee staff and the students of the Garden was as follows: 
“Some i of a reconnaissance survey of the vegetation of 
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provinces recognizable in the state were defined as they 
believed to be determined by temperature, and their extent 
distribution was charted. 
It was recognized, as indicated by Merriam,* that in general 
ie area ise New York State is Dat of the necting ground where 
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ice It was indicated that at an elevation of 200 to 400 feet, 
strength up the Hudson and Champlain valleys, and along the 
south margin of the Erie and Ontario basins, becoming rather 
weaker in the St. Lawrence Valley. 
By reason of the fact, however, that much of the area of the 
State is a dissected plateau whose general elevation varies from 
00 ft. to 2,000 ft. more or ee ee some remnant elevations 
fail) Tising to 2,000 feet a eaks to 4,200+feet 
(Catskills) and 5,300-+ pee (Adonis temperature con- 
hattan and coastward Long Island and Staten Island, which is 
approximately at sea level and under ocean influences. 
pecifically the following subdivisions were proposed: 
* Merriam, C. H. Life Zones and Crop Zones. Bull. U. S. Dept. Agric. 10: 
1898. 
