New York Botanical Garden

The New York Botanical Garden is located in Brooks, New York, and contains 50 different gardens. Visitors can visit stepped waterfalls, wetlands, and a 20-hectare uncut New York forest of oak, American beech, cherry, birch, tulip and ash, some more than 200 years old . The important attractions of the New York Botanical Garden include the "Crystal Palace" wrought iron greenhouse, now called Haupt Conservatory, Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden, Rock Garden; about 15 hectares of coniferous forest. Academic facilities include a dissemination center, a library with 550,000 volumes and a herbarium with more than 7 million specimens dating back 300 years.