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Laid out on 52 acres beside Prospect Park, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden was founded in 1910 on a former ash dump and opened to the public in May 1911, its grounds planned by the Olmsted Brothers firm under founding director Charles Stuart Gager. More than a century on, it holds upward of 10,000 kinds of plants and draws around 700,000 visitors a year to a setting that works as both a living museum and a neighbourhood retreat. Spring is its signature season. The double rows of pink Kanzan cherry ...