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 m Vork Botanical Garden
 Bronx Park
 Descriptive Guide
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 Collections
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        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…