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m Vork Botanical Garden
Bronx Park
Descriptive Guide
to the
Grounds* Buildings and
Collections
NEW…
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
BRONX PARK
Descriptive Guide
TO THE
Grounds, Buildings and Collections
Reprinted from the…
Press of
TBI. NEK EBA PR1NTIKG COMP»tlV,
lARCASTER. PA.
DESCRIPTIVE GUIDE TO THE GROUNDS,
BUILDINGS AND COLLECTIONS
Location
The New York Botanical Garden is situated in the north…
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from Crotona Park ; there are also driveway entrances at
200th Street, convenient for carriages coming from…
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4. The herbaceous grounds, situated in a valley east of
the great greenhouse near the Southern Boulevard entrance,…
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and driveway approaches. The house contains fifteen com-
partments, separated by glass partitions and doors.
House No. i…
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washing, and passes into commerce under the name of sago
starch.
Opposite the entrance to the court in this house, is a…
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are exceedingly beautiful in foliage and in flower ; the so-
called Florida moss, or Spanish moss, clothes the trees of…
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the maguey of the West Indies (a spiny-leaved relative of
the century plant, native of the West Indies, and used there…
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America and the West Indies, and some from northern South
America. Bananas will grow in southern Florida, but the
rocky…
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this fruit is not edible.
Chocolate trees {Theobroma Cacao)
native of tropical America, may be found near the western…
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of joints, either cylindric or broad and flattened. In Cereus
some species have the stems angled, and sometimes bearing…
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country, " huariqui " (Ibervillea sonorae); during the rainy-
season green stems arise from these large…
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the cherimoyer (Anona Cherimolid), and the sour sop [Anon
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7nuricata).
The mammee-apple is another tropical fruit,…
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pool on the right, as one enters from house No. 10, are mem-
bers of the sedge and grass families, while on the left…
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other specimens of tropical ferns as are too large for the
benches in house No. 10. Many specimens of tree-ferns,
from…
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around the central bench and ending with the thistle family
on the end of the south side bench near the entrance to…
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carias, which take the place in the southern hemisphere of
the pines in the north; Araucaria brasiliana and A. Bid-…
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tree (Olea europaea), of which a small specimen will be found
near the oleanders ; this plant was originally from the…
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tively few species are found, while in very cold countries they
are entirely absent.
Most of the tropical forms are…
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Power House. Steam for heating the conservatories is
supplied from the power house, located near the New York
Central…
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including foods, drugs, fibers, gums, resins, sugars, and
others as indicated by the accompanying floor plan.
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gutta percha, which is derived from the trunks and foliage
of certain trees belonging to the sapodilla family, these…
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tobacco plant (Nicotiand) from different parts of America,
and a series of articles as prepared for the market. Closely…