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7 New York Botanical Garden

The New York Botanical Garden offers 250 acres (100 ha)
of dazzling beauty and hands-on enjoyment. From
the nation’s most glorious Victorian glasshouse to the
12-acre (5-ha) Everett Children’s Adventure Garden, it
is alive with things to discover. One of the oldest and
largest botanical gardens in the world, it has 50 gardens
and plant collections, and 50 acres (20 ha) of uncut
forest. The spectacular Enid A. Haupt Conservatory Entrance to the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory
houses “A World of Plants,” with climates ranging from
misty tropical rain forests to dramatic deserts.
Seasonal
Exhibition
Galleries

Deserts of
Africa

1 Rock Garden
Rock outcroppings,
streams, a waterfall,
and a flower-rimmed
pond create an alpine
habitat for plants from
around the world.

2 Thain Family Forest
One of New York City’s last surviving natural
forest areas includes red oak, white ash, tulip
trees, and birch.
Deserts
of the
Entrance
Americas 3 Everett Children’s Adventure Garden
Kids can discover the wonders of ecology
and plants.

4 Peggy Rockefeller
Rose Garden
Over 2,700 rose bushes
have been planted in
the Rose Garden, laid
Entrance out in 1988 according
Locator Map to the 1916 design.

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