At Botanical Garden: What Darwin Saw Out Back - New York Times - Annotated

• By CORNELIA DEAN

  Published: April 25, 2008

  

  Damon Winter/The New York Times

  Orchids on display at the New York Botanical Garden recall the varieties Darwin studied and the role they played in his future naturalist theories.

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  Inside Darwin’s Garden

  
  
  

  Cambridge University Library

  Darwin studied more than flowers. He was intrigued by what Dr. Kohn calls the “behavior” of plants — how they move, respond to light, consume insects and otherwise act in the world.

  “Darwin’s Garden: An Evolutionary
  Adventure” opens Friday and runs through June 15 at the New York
  Botanical Garden, Southern Boulevard and 200th Street, Bedford Park, the Bronx; (718) 817-8700, nybg.org.