. Descriptive guide to the grounds, buildings and collections. (I27) 2. Public Conservatory Range 1 This great glasshouse, located but a short distance from the 200th Street Station of the Third Avenue Elevated Railway, is 512 feet in length, with a central dome about 90 feet in height, and wings extending from the main range in such a way as to form a court open to the southwest. The area under glass is about one acre. The building stands on a terrace 5 feet in height, approached by six flights of cut granite steps connecting with the path and driveway approaches. The house contains fifteen c
. Descriptive guide to the grounds, buildings and collections. (I27) 2. Public Conservatory Range 1 This great glasshouse, located but a short distance from the 200th Street Station of the Third Avenue Elevated Railway, is 512 feet in length, with a central dome about 90 feet in height, and wings extending from the main range in such a way as to form a court open to the southwest. The area under glass is about one acre. The building stands on a terrace 5 feet in height, approached by six flights of cut granite steps connecting with the path and driveway approaches. The house contains fifteen com- partments, separated by glass partitions and Fig. 1. Ground plan of Conservator}-' Range I. House No. 1 contains palms of numerous species from all parts of tropical and warm regions, both of the Old World and the New. Of West Indian palms, the collection con- tains the royal palm of the West Indies, Florida, and Panama; an elegant plant of the corozo palm {Acrocomia aculeata) of Jamaica, Porto Rico and the Windward Islands; and the cocoanut palm, planted in all tropical countries for its fruit and for the numerous uses to which its fiber, wood, and leaves are applied—it is not definitely known that the cocoanut palm is a native of the West Indies, and where in the tropical regions it actually originated is uncertain. Other tropical American palms are illustrated by the silvertop palm (Coccothrinax argentea), of Florida and the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original New York Botanical Garden. New York, [The New era printing Company]
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