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DESCRIPTIVE GUIDE TO THE GROUNDS, 

 BUILDINGS, AND COLLECTIONS 



Fourth 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, or by the 

 White Plains Avenue Extension of the Subway from 

 East 1 80th Street to stations at Pelham Parkway and 

 Allerton Avenue. 



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

 the Woodlawn Road. This line connects with lines from 



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

 third edition see Bulletin no. 34. 



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