Liberty Hyde Bailey
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
Liberty Hyde Bailey 1858-1954, American botanist and horticulturist, b. South Haven, Mich., grad. Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State Univ.), 1882. At Cornell Univ. he was professor of horticulture (1888-1903) and dean of the agricultural college and director of the agricultural experiment station (1903-13). Through numerous writings and as chairman of President Theodore Roosevelt's Commission on Country Life (1908), he worked for the improvement of rural life. Bailey was influential in establishing horticulture as a respected science. He wrote many basic works on botany and horticulture, edited The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture (6 vol., 1914-17; new ed. 1935) and Cyclopedia of American Agriculture (4 vol., 1907-9), and compiled (with E. Z. Bailey) Hortus (1930, rev. ed. 1935) and Hortus Second (1941). Hortus Third was published in 1976.
Bibliography: See biographies by P. Dorf (1956) and A. D. Rodgers (1949, repr. 1965).
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