Bloodgood, first cultivated strawberries

  

'This house, later known as the

Garretson House, after descendant Eliza Bloodgood's husband, Garret R. Garretson, stood

just north of the project site, within modem Lots 104 and 107, until its demolition in 1911." 

http://motes.blogspot.com/2019/03/bloodgood-nurseries-flushing-ny.html?m=1

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"Daniel Bloodgood, the grandfather of the present owner, was the first gardener 

 to raise cultivated strawberries 

 in this country; 

 and tho original Bloodgood pear tree is still standing where he planted lt.  

Abraham mood - good (sic, Bloodgood,) was also the originator of the famous amber cherry, which he raised from a pit.  

It is still in a bearing and flourishing condition A marvelous apple tree overshadows the ancient seed house.  

 

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-daniel-and-abra/19915677/ 

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'1793, William Prince Jr. purchased twenty-four acres alongside the original nursery, naming the new property the Linnaean Botanic Garden and Nursery. 

 In the decades to come, a cohort of nurseries would open in Flushing, including Parsons Nursery and Bloodgood Nursery, both mapped nearby in 1841.  

 Smith, 1841/Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division" 

Bloodgood Nursery was established in 1790. 

The original Bloodgood built his home in 1659 in Flushing.

https://arboretum.harvard.edu/stories/the-prince-family-pioneers-of-american-horticulture/