Liberty Hyde Bailey

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Liberty Hyde Bailey
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Born March 15, 1858
Died Dec 25, 1954
Citizenship American
Fields botanist

Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954) was an American horticulturist, botanist and cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science. Born in South Haven, Michigan, he was educated and taught at the Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) before moving to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he was director of the College of Agriculture. He edited The Cyclopedia of American Agriculture (1907-09), the Cyclopedia of American Horticulture (1900-02), and the Rural Science, Rural Textbook, Gardencraft, and Young Folks Library series of manuals. He wrote scores of books, including scientific works, efforts to explain botany to laypeople, a collection of poetry, and also coined the words cultivar,[1] cultigen,[2] and indigen. Cornell has memorialized Bailey by dedicating Bailey Hall in his honor. A residence hall in Brody Complex at Michigan State University, and an elementary school in East Lansing, Michigan, were also named after him.

Bailey is credited with being instrumental in starting agricultural extension services, the 4-H movement, the nature study movement, parcel post and rural electrification. He was considered the father of rural sociology and rural journalism.

About 140 years after his birth, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Scholars Program was created at Michigan State University, the institution of higher learning where Bailey began his career. The Bailey Scholars Program incorporates L.H. Bailey's love of learning and expressive learning styles to provide a space for students to become educated in fields that interest them.

The standard author abbreviation L.H.Bailey is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.[3]

Contents

[edit] Some selected works

  • The Principles of Fruit-Growing (1897)
  • The Nursery Book (1897)
  • Plant-Breeding (1897)
  • The Pruning Manual (1898)
  • Sketch of the Evolution of our Native Fruits (1898)
  • Principles of Agriculture (1898)
  • The Principles of Vegetable Gardening (1901)
  • The State and the Farmer (1908)
  • The Nature Study Idea (1909)
  • The Training of Farmers (1909)
  • Manual of Gardening (1910)
  • Cyclopedia of American Agriculture (1910)[4]
  • The Outlook to Nature (1911)
  • The Country Life Movement (1911)
  • The Practical Garden Book (1913)
  • The Holy Earth (1915)

[edit] Selected articles

  • Bailey, L.H. - Canna x generalis. Hortus, 118 (1930); cf. Standley & Steyerm. in Fieldiana, Bot., xxiv. III.204 (1952).
  • Bailey, L.H. - Canna x orchiodes. Gentes Herb. (Ithaca), 1 (3): 120 (1923).

[edit] References

  1. ^ Bailey, L.H. (1923). Various cultigens, and transfers in nomenclature. Gentes Herb. 1: 113-136
  2. ^ Bailey, L.H. (1918). The indigen and the cultigen. Science ser. 2, 47: 306-308.
  3. ^ Brummitt, R. K.; C. E. Powell (1992). Authors of Plant Names. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 1-84246-085-4. 
  4. ^ Bailey, Liberty Hyde (1910). Cyclopedia of American agriculture: a popular survey of agricultural conditions, practices and ideals in the United States and Canada, In Four Volumes, Volume II --Crops. Macmillan Publishers, 2016 pages. Retrieved on 2008-05-10. 

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