New York Botanical Garden

The New York Botanical Garden is a botanical garden in the Bronx, the northernmost borough of New York City. He is one of the largest botanical gardens in the United States. The garden covers an area of almost 1 km ² and is located in Bronx Park. It is home to some of the world's leading plant laboratories.

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

Local attractions include a 16 -acre tree population (The NYBG Forest ) of the original forest with oak, birch, hemlock and other trees that are not like and are intended to reach a jungle nearby state. Some trees are about 300 years old and up to 36 meters high. In the middle of the city have the plants but very air pollution, heavy metal pollution and pests (eg originating from Japan Tannenlaus ) .. to fight in the middle of the botanical garden, the forest area is traversed by the Bronx River, which flows through a canyon and Waterfalls forms. Further, a Japanese rock garden, a 15 -acre conifer collection and a document emanating from the 1890s by Lord and Burnham greenhouse can be seen.

Since 1931, the publication Brittonia appears.

The New York Botanical Garden offers research facilities; He has a library with about 50,000 volumes and a herbarium, where over 7 million specimens are archived. The Pfizer Plant Research Laboratory was built in 2006 with the founding of funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the State of New York and the City of New York City; It is named after its largest private entrepreneurs. Research focus of the laboratory is to plant genetics.

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