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of the Garden with the tract of about 140 acres added by 

 the city to the reservation in 191 5. At that time it was 

 much out of repair, but considerable work has since been 

 done upon it. The basement is used for shops for storage; 

 the Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences has occupied a part 

 of the building for several years, having museum collections 

 on both the first and second floors as well as the use of a 

 room for its Secretary; the Horticultural Society of New 

 York has been given office room on the second floor; some 

 of the laboratories of the Garden are located here; and part 

 of the first floor has been fitted up for board rooms and a 

 lecture room. 



5. The Pinetum 



[collection of cone-bearing trees] 

 The collection of cone-bearing trees, technically known 

 as the Pinetum, because the pines are the most abundant 

 of these trees, is planted over a space of about 30 acres in 

 the southwestern part of the grounds, extending from the 

 approach to the elevated railway station southeast to the 

 herbaceous garden, and northeast to the museum building 

 and the borders of the hemlock forest. The species of trees 

 are grouped in genera, which are mostly separated by paths. 

 The planting out of these trees was commenced in 1901; 

 the collection will continually become more complete year 

 by year as additional species are secured; many of these 

 have to be raised from seed, and the process of establishing 

 a collection of conifers thus requires much time. . 



Commencing at the approach to the elevated railway 

 station we find the Douglas spruce {Pseudotsuga mucronata) 

 planted in the space between the traffic road and the park 

 driveway to the left of the path leading to the conserva- 

 tories; this tree is a native of western North America from 

 the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast and is sometimes 

 known as red fir; in the far northwest it sometimes be- 

 comes 180 to 210 feet high, its trunk occasionally as much 

 as 14 feet in diameter, but in the Rocky Mountains it is 



