Really. "The botanist David Hosack transformed this landscape into the country's first public botanical garden in 1801. His creation, the 20-acre Elgin Botanic Garden, would come to contain about 3,000 species of plants. … It was a space where New York City residents were exposed to exotic flora and fauna like kumquats and figs." And […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:04AM on May 6, 2019