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General Plan 



A. Buildings 

 The principal buildings open to the public are: 



1. The largest botanical museum building in the world, 

 located near the Botanical Garden Station of the New 

 York Central Railroad and the Mosholu Parkway entrance. 

 This building includes, in addition to the museum exhibits 

 on the main floors, a large lecture hall for public lectures 

 in the basement; and the library, laboratories for in- 

 struction and research, and the herbarium, on the upper 

 floor. 



2. Conservatory range I, a large and handsome glass- 

 house located near the Elevated Railway Station and 

 containing plants from tropical regions. 



3. Conservatory range 2, a similar building more than 

 half finished, situated on the eastern side of the Garden 

 near the Allerton Avenue entrance. 



4. The mansion, a stone house built by the Lorillard 

 family in 1856, stands on the east side of the Bronx River, 

 above the waterfall. It contains meeting rooms, board 

 rooms, horticultural laboratories, a lecture room, the 

 oellections of the Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences, the 

 office of the Secretary of the Horticultural Society of New 

 York, and the shops of the Garden, which are in its base- 

 ment. 



B. Systematic Plantations 



Containing plants arranged in botanical sequence for 

 comparative study. 



5. The pinetum, or collection of cone-bearing trees, 

 mostly evergreens, brought together on the hills and 

 slopes on all sides of conservatory range 1, and in the space 

 between that structure and the museum building. 



The young white pine, red pine, and white fir plantations 

 are located south of the herbaceous garden, near the Victory 

 Grove of Douglas spruce trees. 



6. The deciduous arboretum, or collection of trees which 



