Career

Employed by the New York Botanical Garden, Nash did field work in the Bahamas, South Florida and Haiti. He published Costa Rican Orchids (1906) and North American Flora (1909). In 1916, he became one of the two founding editors of the Garden"s new botanical journal Addisonia, along with John Hendley Barnhart.

Nash Park in Clifton, New Jersey is named after him.