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THE FIRST BOTANIC GARDEN ON LONG ISLAND 
The Garden library has recently secured a copy of the 
“Catalogue of fruit and ornamental trees and plants, bulbous 
flower roots, green-house plants, &c., &c., cultivated at the Lin- 
naean Botanic Garden, William Prince, proprietor, Flushing, 
Long-Island, near New York.” ‘The copy is of the twenty- 
second edition, printed by ‘I. and J. Swords, New York, 1823. 
apg QU ERERS” 
TRE BPRANCE WOMESTEAT SLVSUNS 
Fic. 13. The Prince Homestead, Flushing, L. I]. The Box Trees 
Are Over 100 Years 
So far as available records show, the Linnaean Garden was 
the first botanic garden to be established on Long Island, the 
first in New York State, and the second in North America. 
The first garden in the State was the Elgin Botanic Garden, 
established in New York City by Dr. David Hosack, in 1801, 
while the first garden in the United States, and still preserved, 
was undoubtedly that of Dr. Bartram in Philadelphia, 1728. 
The Linnaean Garden, at Flushing, established in 1737, had 
