New jersey is called the garden state. what is the orgin of that?

Here is the most likely origin of the name but it, too, may be apocryphal; it has nothing to do with the truck farms in southern New Jersey.:





A distinguished citizen of Camden, Hon. Abraham Browning , stirred the pride of Jerseymen by telling them, at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, on New Jersey


Day, August 24, 1876, that our “Garden State” is like a huge barrel, with both ends open, one of which is plucked by New York and the other by Pennsylvania.

New jersey is called the garden state. what is the orgin of that?
It was too difficult to fit oil and petrichemicals on the license plate.
Reply:the infamous "VICTORY GARDENS" stimulated by the onslaught of the great world wars.
Reply:13 colonies
Reply:It once supplied food to the major cities of Philadelphia and New York City.