Description
The New York Botanical Garden is a garden of 100 hectares in Bronx Park, in the Bronx, with more than a million plants in 50 gardens and collections. Founded in 1891 on the model of Kew Gardens in London, it holds glasshouses, an old forest and a river with a waterfall.
The Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, a great glasshouse of 1902 modeled on Kew's Palm House, holds rainforest, tropical and desert plants, with lotuses and water lilies in its pools in summer. The Thain Family Forest is a patch of the forest that covered New York before the Europeans came, never logged, with trees over two centuries old.
Through it runs the Bronx River, the city's only freshwater river, with its rapids and the Stone Mill of 1840, once a snuff mill. At the holidays the Holiday Train Show runs model trains among New York landmarks made of natural materials.
The Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, a great glasshouse of 1902 modeled on Kew's Palm House, holds rainforest, tropical and desert plants, with lotuses and water lilies in its pools in summer. The Thain Family Forest is a patch of the forest that covered New York before the Europeans came, never logged, with trees over two centuries old.
Through it runs the Bronx River, the city's only freshwater river, with its rapids and the Stone Mill of 1840, once a snuff mill. At the holidays the Holiday Train Show runs model trains among New York landmarks made of natural materials.