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“Hosack was the original urban gardener, experimenting with fruits and vegetables by day and mingling with his cosmopolitan friends at night.”
― Victoria Johnson, American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic

“When Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr needed an attending physician for their 1804 duel, they both chose David Hosack.”
― Victoria Johnson, American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic

“For Hosack, the garden did become a new home. What he couldn’t find in the soil, he found in books, spending hours in the little library in the back corner of the garden. Curtis had installed an aviary just next door, and with the birds singing and the leaves rustling on the shrubbery outside, a reader curled up in a library chair felt, as one visitor put it, “a thousand miles from London”
― Victoria Johnson, American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic