JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
Vor. I. June, 1900. No. 6. 
THE RANGE OF HORTICULTURAL HOUSES. 
WitH Puiate V. 
Ground was broken by the Commissioner of Parks, Borough 
of the Bronx, for the great conservatories in January, 1899; 
their construction was begun soon afterward, an as since 
progressed steadily, so that they are now essentially ready to 
receive the collections of warm-temperate and tropical plants 
which have been accumulated during the past three years. ese 
of their kind in the world, and when the range is fully completed, 
they will be among the largest. The central house of the group 
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feet in interior height without a pillar or any other impediment 
to the free growth of palms, bamboos, tree ferns and other trop- 
ical trees which will ultimately occupy it ; a number of years will, 
of course, be necessary to produce a satisfactory and effective ex- 
hibit of the arboreous tropical flora in a glass structure of these 
dimensions. In the accompanying plan this house is numbered 1. 
To the east = west of this palm house are much lower 
houses numbered 2, 3, t2 and 13. These are provided through- 
out their feng with slate benches on iron supports, built with a 
view to affording great strength and permanency ; there is a tier 
of these benches along each side of the houses, and another 
higher and wider one through the middle. These houses will 
take the orchids, the smaller ferns, the cactuses, bromeliads, 
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