New York Botanical Garden

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New York Botanical Garden: The Enid A. Haupt Conservatory in winter.

The New York Botanical Garden is a botanical garden in the Bronx , the northernmost borough of New York City . It is one of the largest botanical gardens in the United States . The garden covers an area of ​​100 acres and is located in Bronx Park. It houses some of the world's leading plant laboratories.

The New York Botanical Garden was founded in 1891 by the activities of the Staten Island Institute of Arts & Sciences , whose founding member Nathaniel Lord Britton then became the first director of the Botanical Garden .

The sights include 16 hectares of trees (The NYBG Forest) of the original forest with oaks , birches , hemlocks and other trees that are not felled and should thus achieve a state close to the jungle. Some trees are around 300 years old and up to 36 meters tall. In the middle of the city, however, the plants have to struggle with air pollution, heavy metal pollution and pests (e.g. the pine louse from Japan). In the middle of the Botanical Gardens, the wooded area is crossed by the Bronx River , which flows through a canyon and forms waterfalls. There is also a Japanese rock garden, a 15 acre collection of conifers, and a Lord and Burnham greenhouse from the 1890s. Works by the American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay are presented on a poetry trail in the Botanical Garden .

The publication Brittonia has been published since 1931 . On May 28, 1967, the botanical garden received the status of a National Historic Landmark . On the same day it was entered as a Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places .

The New York Botanical Garden offers research opportunities; He has a library with around 50,000 volumes and a herbarium in which over 7 million specimens are archived. The Pfizer Plant Research Laboratory was established in 2006 with funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , New York State, and New York City; it is named after its greatest private founder. The research focus of this laboratory is plant genetics.

An important sponsor in the early years of the Botanical Garden was the industrialist and philanthropist Murray Guggenheim .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mittelbach, Margaret / Crewdson, Michael: Wild New York , 1999, Birkhäuser Verlag, p. 39, p. 139/140
  2. ↑ 41. Poetry Trail. Poetry Newspaper, August 12, 2014, accessed August 15, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: New York. National Park Service , accessed December 3, 2019.
  4. ^ New York Botanical Gardens in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed December 3, 2019.

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Coordinates: 40 ° 51 '44.4 "  N , 73 ° 52' 36"  W.