What is: Brooklyn Botanic Garden
An institution established in 1910 by a group of private citizens (on the site of a former city dump) in Brooklyn, New York. The BBG was a pioneer in horticultural education, a role it continues to play today. Among its most important features are the rose garden, the Japanese garden, the fragrance garden for the blind, and three new glasshouses featuring collections of tropical, desert, and temperate-region plants. It also publishes a series of handbooks on various aspects of gardening.