Conservatory Garden

[3]: 144 A greenhouse on the site of Conservatory Garden was erected in 1898, and it contained exhibitions of plants and flower beds.

In the late 1980s, it was restored and partially replanted under the direction of horticulturist and urban landscape designer Lynden Miller[6][7] and reopened in June 1987.

It is flanked by twin allées of crabapples and backed by a curved wisteria pergola against the steep natural slope, that is dominated at its skyline by a giant American Sycamore.

[12] Some large shrubs, like tree lilac, magnolias, buddleias and Cornus alba 'elegantissima' provide vertical structure and offer light shade to offset the sunny locations, planted by Lynden Miller with a wide range of hardy perennials and decorative grasses, intermixed with annuals planted to seem naturalized.

The bronze figures, Three Dancing Maidens by Walter Schott (1861–1938), were executed in Germany about 1910 [14] and formed a fountain at Untermyer's estate "Greystone" in Yonkers, New York.

This section of the Conservatory Garden has two dramatic seasons of massed display, of tulips in the spring and Korean chrysanthemums in the fall.