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6. By trolley car, on the Southern Boulevard to Pelham 

 Avenue. This line connects with lines from the southern 

 and southeastern parts of The Bronx. 



7. By driveways in Mosholu Parkway from Van Cort- 

 landt Park; from Pelham Bay Park through Pelham Park- 

 way; through the Crotona Parkway and Southern Boule- 

 vard from Crotona Park; there are also driveway entrances 

 at 200th Street, convenient for carriages coming from 

 Jerome Avenue; at Newell Avenue, at the northern end of 

 the Garden, for carriages coming from the north; at 

 Allerton Avenue on the eastern side of the Garden for 

 carriages coming from the east; and at the Woodlawn Road, 

 convenient for carriages coming from Yonkers, and from 

 other points west arid northwest of the Garden; there are 

 three driveway entrances from Pelham Avenue. 



8. The White Plains Avenue Extension of the Subway, 

 with three stations east of the Garden is approaching 

 completion. 



Purposes 



The New York Botanical Garden was established by an 

 Act of the Legislature of the State of New York passed in 

 1891 and amended in 1894 "for the purpose of establishing 

 and maintaining a Botanical Garden and Museum and 

 Arboretum therein, for the collection and culture of plants, 

 flowers, shrubs and trees, the advancement of botanical 

 science and knowledge, and the prosecution of original 

 researches therein and in kindred subjects, for affording 

 instruction in the same, for the prosecution and exhibition 

 of ornamental and decorative horticulture and gardening, 

 and for the entertainment, recreation and instruction of the 

 people." 



General Plan 



Features of especial interest are: 



1. The largest conservatories in America, for the cultiva- 

 tion of plants of tropical regions, one located near the en- 

 trance at the elevated railway station, and a second very 



