Rose garden
Image represented is one of a related set (GRDN 0190, GRDN 0192, GRDN 0193, GRDN 0194, GRDN 0195, GRDN 0189, GRDN 0188, GRDN 0186), some of which may also be described in this new record; Nine views, in three different sizes, of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's rose garden and arbor. 0190 shows a group of visitors. 0194 and 0195 are close-up views of an unidentified boy and girl. 0196 is a close-up view of a rose. Six of the images are not dated.
Brooklyn Public LibraryBrooklyn Botanical Rose Garden, 1931.
Brooklyn Botanical Garden's Cranbrook Rose Garden has over five thousand rose bushes. Each rose is said to have a different fragrance. The 5,000 bushes of the garden contain almost 1,400 differents kinds of roses including wild species roses, old garden roses, hybrid tea roses, floribundas, polyanthas, hybrid perpetual, climbers, ramblers, and miniature roses. Harold Caparn, and landscape architect, and BBG's horticulturist Montague Free collaborated to design the Cranford Rose Garden in 1928.
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