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New York City 40°40′7.32″N 73°57′52.92″W / 40.6687000°N 73.9647000°W / 40.6687000; -73.9647000 Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens
Skylands is a 1,119-acre (4.53 km 2) estate property located in Ringwood State Park in Ringwood, New Jersey, a borough in Passaic County in the state of New Jersey.The Skylands property consists of the historic Skylands Manor mansion, and the New Jersey Botanical Garden; the botanical garden is 96 acres (390,000 m 2) and it is open to the public year-round.
During their honeymoon in 1888, they visited Kew Gardens, which led to his wife proposing a botanical garden for New York at a Torrey Club meeting. Together, they campaigned to bring about the NYBG. Britton left Columbia in 1895 to become the first director of the New York Botanical Garden, a position he held until 1929.
Botanical gardens in New York City (1 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Botanical gardens in New York (state)" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
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Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens, Buffalo, New York, 1895–1899; New York Botanical Garden, 1899–1902; Sonnenberg Gardens and Mansion State Historic Park, Canandaigua, New York, 1903–1915; Reynolda Gardens, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 1912; United States Botanic Garden, Washington, DC, 1933
Photo of Coe Hall by Robert Swanson The gallery Coe Hall as seen from other side Mr. Coe's bedroom Buffalo Room. The history of the present-day property on the famous "Gold Coast" of Long Island began between 1904 and 1912, when Helen MacGregor Byrne – wife of New York City lawyer James Byrne – purchased six farming properties which she collectively referred to as "Upper Planting Fields Farm".
Yaddo's gardens are modeled after the classical Italian gardens the Trasks had visited in Europe. [20] The Four Seasons statues were acquired and installed in the garden in 1909. [ 21 ] There are many statues and sculptures located within the estate, including a sundial that bears the inscription, "Hours fly, Flowers die, New days, New ways ...