DESCRIPTIVE GUIDE TO THE GROUNDS, 

 BUILDINGS AND COLLECTIONS 



Third Edition* 



Location 



The New York Botanical Garden is situated in the north- 

 ern part of Bronx Park, north of Pelham Avenue, the 

 reservation including nearly 400 acres of land of a very 

 diversified character, furnishing natural landscapes of great 

 beauty and variety. 



Means of Access 



The Garden is conveniently reached in the following ways : 



1. By the Harlem Division of the New York Central and 

 Hudson River Railroad to The Botanical Garden Station. 



2. By the Third Avenue Elevated Railway system to the 

 terminal station of that road at Bronx Park. 



3. By the Subway, Lenox Avenue and West Farms 

 branch, with transfer at 149th Street and Third Avenue to 

 Elevated Railway, thence to Bronx Park Station. 



4. By trolley car on Webster Avenue to 200th Street or 

 the Woodlawn Road. This line connects with lines from 

 the western part of The Bronx on Fordham Road, and on 

 Tremont Avenue, and also with the line to Yonkers. 



5. By trolley car on the White Plains road east of Bronx 

 Park from West Farms, Williamsbridge, and Mt. Vernon, 

 connecting with lines from the eastern part of The Bronx at 

 West Farms and at Mt. Vernon. 



* For first edition see Bulletin no. 16: for second edition see Bulletin no. 23. 



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