At Canonbury Road, the walk continues through a fernery to Pleasant Place, where an inscription in the pavement marks the New River's route.
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By 1920 the ferns were becoming overgrown, and the fernery was demolished some time after World War II because the wooden structure was falling into disrepair.
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Adjoining the Munro-Martin Fernery to the west is the George Watkins Orchid House ( 1986 ) constructed from similar materials but on a smaller scale.
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Other elements of the park include a playground, the 1959 memorial to William Hann, the 1988 fernery, the 1988 animal enclosure and the 1972 Rotary centenary pond.
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In 1874, the fernery in Benmore Botanic Garden ( part of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh ) was built by James Duncan ( a plant collector and sugar refiner ).
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Outbuildings remaining today consist of an early billiard room, a brick outbuilding which was converted into a fernery in the 1930s and new garages built to a design by Buchanan Architects.
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The focal point in the centre of the figure of eight was a fernery, constructed in 1968 to house the fern collection of the early and influential Munro-Martin family.
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Designed by architect John Blake-Kelly in 1964, the open space landscaping contains extensive native plantings, including a fernery, centred around three artificial lakes, created by draining marshy paddocks.
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In 1992, Historic Scotland then designated the fernery a category B listed building, describing it as " a rare structure and important as an integral part of the gardens at Benmore ".
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The plants are arranged in distinct collections, including an alpine garden, a fernery, hebe and flax cultivars, a large rock garden, grass and sedge species, and a coastal garden.
