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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 Bleecker 

 Street 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 

 and northwest of the Garden. 



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 Ar- 

 boretum 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 



The general plan of development includes : 



1. The largest conservatories in America, for the cultivation 

 of plants of tropical regions, located near the entrance at the 

 elevated railway station. A second very large greenhouse is 

 planned for construction near the Bleecker Street entrance 

 on the eastern side of the Garden. 



2. The largest botanical museum in the world, located 

 near the Bronx Park station of the New York Central Rail- 

 road and the Mosholu Parkway entrance. This building 

 includes a large lecture hall for public lectures in the base- 

 ment ; and the library, laboratories for instruction and re- 

 search, and the herbarium, on the upper floor. 



3. The pinetum, or collection of cone-bearing trees, mostly 

 evergreens, which is being brought together on the hills and 

 slopes on all sides of the great greenhouse, and in the space 

 between that house and the museum building. 



