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PUBLIC BOTANICAL GARDENS 
THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN, New York City. 
Location — Bronx Park. 
This garden is open at all times without charge, is located on 
about four hundred acres of land, about one-fourth of it a nat- 
ural forest reserve, with some four miles of driveways and 
fifteen miles of paths and trails. Plantations include herbace- 
ous gardens, fruticetum and arboretum, mixed flower gardens, 
school gardens and horticultural gardens, with large areas de- 
voted to roses, dahlias, cannas, tulips, gladioli, peonies, ferns, 
conifers and irises. There are two very large public green- 
houses containing collections of tropical and subtropical plants, 
those of cactuses, palms, cycads, orchids, bromeliads, ferns and 
agaves being very extensive. Altogether nearly 15,000 species 
and varieties of plants may be seen. A range of small green- 
houses provides facilities for study and teaching. The museum 
building contains collections illustrating economic, systematic 
and fossil botany, an herbarium of over one million specimens, 
a library of over 30,000 volumes of the literature of botany, hor- 
ticulture, agriculture and forestry and laboratories and lecture 
rooms for research and teaching. Information on botanical 
and horticultural subjects is given out widely through publica- 
tions, lectures, correspondence, and by docents, and a school 
of gardening provides direct instruction. Docents will escort 
visitors to parts of the grounds and buildings without charge 
on any week-day at three o’clock and explain the collections, 
and their attention may be had at other times if pre-arranged. 
The institution is controlled by a board of managers chosen 
from a corporation established under a charter from the State 
of New York, and is maintained and developed partly by annual 
appropriations by the City of New York and partly by funds 
of the corporation derived mainly from the income from en- 
dowments, from gifts and from membership dues. Address ; 
The Director-in-Chief, New York Botanical Gardens, Bronx 
Park, New York City. 
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