THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN 



by specimens is the Panama hat plant. A clump of Chinese 

 bamboo, which belongs to the grass family, flourishes here. 

 This plant grows with great rapidity each year from new 

 shoots which come up from under ground, measurements 

 showing that it has here reached the height of sixty-five 

 feet in ninety-five days, a rate of about eight inches a day. 



In House No. 2 also are to be found specimens of the 

 palm family. 



House No. 3 contains tropical monocotyledonous plants, 

 such as species of the spider lily, maguey, Dracaena, bow- 

 string hemp and arrowroot. 



In House No. 4 are installed many large tropical plants, 

 among which are: The interesting screw-pines with their 

 spirally arranged leaves and prominent prop-roots; the 

 magnificent Veitch's tail-flower, believed to be the most 

 elegant plant of its kind in cultivation; the common rubber 

 tree; the banyan tree; the chocolate tree; the papaw tree; 

 the breadfruit tree; and two striking climbing vines, the 

 night-blooming jessamine of tropical America, which opens 

 its flowers after dark and exhales a delicious perfume, and 

 Henderson's Allamanda of Brazil with its showy large yel- 

 low flowers. 



House No. 5 is given over to desert plants,— carrion 

 flowers from Africa, relatives of our common milkweeds, 

 and various African species of the lily family which have 

 developed storage organs for water. A large number of 

 stonecrops and their relatives are to be found in this house. 



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