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Liberty Hyde Bailey

Born

in South Haven, Michigan, The United States

March 15, 1858

Died

December 25, 1954

Genre

Horticulture, Botany

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Liberty Hyde Bailey, a botanist, through teaching and numerous publications, including the six-volume Standard Cyclopedia of American Horticulture (1914-1917), transformed the science.

Liberty Hyde Bailey cofounded the society.

Born as the third son of Liberty Hyde Bailey Sr. and Sarah Harrison Bailey, farmers, Bailey entered the Michigan agricultural college in 1878 and graduated in 1882.

In the next year of 1883, he assisted the renowned Asa Gray of Harvard University. William James Beal, professor at Michigan agricultural college, arranged this assistance. Bailey spent two years as herbarium assistant of Gray. He met Annette Smith, the daughter of a cattle breeder, at the Michigan agricultural college and in the same year married her Liberty Hyde Bailey, a botanist, through teaching and numerous publications, including the six-volume Standard Cyclopedia of American Horticulture (1914-1917), transformed the science.

Liberty Hyde Bailey cofounded the society.

Born as the third son of Liberty Hyde Bailey Sr. and Sarah Harrison Bailey, farmers, Bailey entered the Michigan agricultural college in 1878 and graduated in 1882.

In the next year of 1883, he assisted the renowned Asa Gray of Harvard University. William James Beal, professor at Michigan agricultural college, arranged this assistance. Bailey spent two years as herbarium assistant of Gray. He met Annette Smith, the daughter of a cattle breeder, at the Michigan agricultural college and in the same year married her. She bore Sara May Bailey in 1887 and Ethel Zoe Bailey in 1889. He in 1885 moved to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and in 1888 assumed the practical and experimental chair.

The academy of arts elected him an associate fellow in 1900. He founded the college of agriculture and in 1904 ably secured public funding. From 1903, he served as dean of New York state college of agriculture to 1913. In 1908, Theodore Roosevelt, president, appointed him chairman of the national commission on country life. Its Report of 1909 called for rebuilding a great agricultural civilization. He edited agriculture from 1907 to 1909 and continued with the Rural Textbook, Gardencraft, and Young Folks Library, series of manuals. He founded and edited the journals Country Life and the Cornell Countryman.

In 1913, he retired to devote more time as a private scholar to social and political issues. In 1917, people elected him as a member of the national academy of the United States.

He dominated the field of literature and wrote a collection of poetry and sixty-five books, which together sold more than a million copies, works; his efforts explained to laypeople, and he edited more than a hundred books of other authors and at least 1.3 thousand articles and more than one hundred papers in pure taxonomy. He also coined the words "cultivar," "cultigen," and "indigen." His most significant and lasting contributions studied cultivated plants.
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	The Holy Earth: Toward a New Environmental Ethic by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Norman Wirzba 3.77 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1980 — 73 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardener's Companion: Essential Writings by Liberty Hyde Bailey, John A. Stempien (Contributor), John Linstrom (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.96 avg rating — 27 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hortus Third: A Concise Dictionary of Plants Cultivated in the United States and Canada 4.52 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1976 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How Plants Get Their Names 3.75 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1940 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Liberty Hyde Bailey: Essential Agrarian and Environmental Writings 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wind and Weather (Poetry) (The Liberty Hyde Bailey Bookshelf, Volume 3) by Liberty Hyde Bailey, C. Christopher Smith (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2010 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Nature-Study Idea: An Interpretation of the New School-Movement to Put the Child in Sympathy with Nature really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2007 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Country-Life Movement in the United States 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 64 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Apple-Tree 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: Volume I: A-E 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1935 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars