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PROGRAM OF EXERCISES AT THE NEw YorK BOTANICAL GARDEN 
The New York Botanical Garden occupies about 400 acres in 
one corner of the Garden, but you will be able to see the Museum 
Building at a distance and will enter one of th 
ranges and see the ie plants growing ther 
On the way from the train to the ee and after 
leaving the Aan you will see many deciduous an 
evergreen trees as w s a number of flower beds filled with 
herbaceous plants. A deciduous tree drops its leaves the 
approach of winter. “How do iduous and evergreen trees 
usually differ in shape?’’ ‘‘Do their leaves also differ in er” 
n entering the den, you will notice at once a large range 
of conservatories, or glass-houses, devoted to tropical or tender 
plants; and, as you march toward them behind your group 
banners, you may try to answer the following questions: ‘‘Why 
are , conservatories built of glass?” “Why is this large range, 
tran the Conservatory Range will be made at three 
arate points and the routes kept distinct until they come 
together at the steps on the south side of th servatory court 
an will be stationed on each route to give a brief description 
° the plants that will een. The route used by a: 
particular child will be purely accidental, but each route will 
busy and interested. 
If you have to wait at the entrance of the conservatories, you 
will find hundreds of pees flowers all about you with their 
names on little labels stuck i ais Broun Ss =the This 
may give you a chance to aahich 
you have often seen witout hee what to call them. 
Route 1 
Enter at house 4, at the northwest corner of the range, and 
turn to the left, passing coffee trees, a sarsaparilla vine, a cinna- 
