Iris garden dedicated

Iris garden dedicated
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Title: Iris garden dedicated
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Caption: "Iris Garden dedicated--A sample of the 1,200-plant iris garden [in the Japanese Garden] at Brooklyn botanic Garden, gift of the Garden Club of Bay Ridge, is shown to club members by Dr. George Avery, director of the Botanic Garden, as Mrs. R. H. Ringen of 25 79th St., president of the Bay Ridge club, places a sign on the plot. Two hundred varieties of iris are in the garden which has been developed since 1946."

Date: 1951
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Prospect Heights (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched.
Stamped on verso: date: May 22, 1951; "Brooklyn Eagle."
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Gardens
Subject: Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
Gardens
Irises (Plants)
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Portraits.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library.
ID: GRDN 0136