1892 “Mother of Balboa Park”

Horticulturist Kate Sessions arranges to lease 30 acres of land in San Diego, California for Balboa Park (originally called City Park), in exchange for planting 100 trees a year in the park and 300 trees a year in the rest of the city. The park has a collection of cypress, pine, oak, pepper tree, and eucalyptus grown from Sessions’ seeds imported from around the world.

• Christman, Florence (1985). The Romance of Balboa Park (4th ed.). San Diego: San Diego Historical Society. ISBN 0-918740-03-7.