JOURNAL 

 The New York Botanical Garden 



Vol. VII. March, 1906. No. 75. 



A GUIDE TO THE CONSERVATORIES. 



The range of horticultural houses, known as the conserva- 

 tories, is located near the southern boundary of the Garden, but 

 a short distance from the terminus of the Third Avenue Ele- 

 vated Railroad. The range comprises fifteen houses or compart- 



ning with the large central dome, known as the palm-house, 

 continuing westward, and then around the range, which encloses 

 an oblong court, terminating with the house to the eastward of 

 the palm-house and known as no. 15. The accompanying floor 

 plan of the range will make this plain. 



Ground was formally broken for this structure on January 3, 

 1899, and the first eight houses, nos. I to 5 and 13 to 15, were 

 completed in June, 1900, and at once opened to the public. The 

 remaining houses were finished and opened to visitors early 



The conservatories cover an area of about 45,000 square feet. 

 The front elevation is a little over five hundred feet in length and 

 the side elevations about two hundred and ten feet The central 

 house with the large dome, designated as no. 1, is circular in form ; 

 it is one hundred feet in diameter and from the ground to the apex 

 of the upper dome is about ninety feet. The lateral extension on 

 each side of this house is about one hundred and sixteen feet long, 

 thirty feet wide and twenty-six feet to the ridge, each extension 

 divided by a transverse partition into two equal parts. At the 

 end of each of these extensions is a house, cross shaped in form, 

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