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David Fairchild

Born

Lansing, Michigan, The United States

Website

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Fairchild

Genre

Science, Botany, Exploration

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David Grandison Fairchild (April 7, 1869 - August 6, 1954) was an American botanist and plant explorer. Fairchild was responsible for the introduction of more than 200,000 exotic plants and varieties of established crops into the United States, including soybeans, pistachios, mangos, nectarines, dates, bamboos, and flowering cherries. Certain varieties of wheat, cotton, and rice became especially economically important.

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Average rating: 4.04 · 68 ratings · 22 reviews · 56 distinct works • Similar authors

	The World Was My Garden: Travels of a Plant Explorer 4.54 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1938 — 23 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
	Book of Monsters by David Fairchild, Marian Hubbard Bell Fairchild 3.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1914 — 41 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
	Garden Islands of the Great East 3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1943 — 12 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 World as Garden: The Life and Writings of David Fairchild by David Fairchild, David Lee (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Exploring for plants 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 10 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
	Spanish Almonds: And Their Introduction Into America (1902) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010 — 18 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 South African Pipe Calabash did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 4 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
	Japanese Bamboos: and their introduction into America 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013 — 21 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
	Our Plant Immigrants: An Account of Some of the Results of the Work of the Office of Seed and Plant Introduction of the Department of Agriculture and Some of the Problems in Process of Solution 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2015 — 10 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
	Experiments in Preventing Leaf Diseases of Nursery Stock in Western New York by David Fairchild, United States Division of Vegetable Phy (Creator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 8 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

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“The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses to bring horses, ships, or steeples close to them, only a few carry even the simplest pocket microscope. Yet a small microscope will reveal wonders a thousand times more thrilling than anything which Alice saw behind the looking-glass.”
― David Fairchild, The World Was My Garden: Travels of a Plant Explorer

tags: alice, alice-in-wonderland, carroll, lewis-carroll, looking-glass, microscope, mind, recognition, science, ships, thrilling

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