Liberty Hyde Bailey

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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, [Bailey, L.H. (1923). Various cultigens, and transfers in nomenclature. "Gentes Herb". 1: 113-136] cultigen, [Bailey, L.H. (1918). The indigen and the cultigen. "Science" ser. 2, 47: 306-308.] 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's publisher was George Platt Brett, Sr. of Macmillan Publishers (United States). [cite book|title=Biographic Memoirs V. 64 |page=9]

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.

ome 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)
* "Cyclopedia of American Horticulture" (1900)cite book
last = Bailey
first = Liberty Hyde
coauthors = Wilhelm Miller
title = Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation of Horticultural Plants, Descriptions of the Species of Fruits, Vegetables, Flowers and Ornamental Plants Sold in the United States and Canada, Together with Geographical and Biographical Sketches
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=AzdJAAAAMAAJ
accessdate = 2008-06-28
edition = Volume 1 A-D
date = 1900
publisher = The Macmillan Company ]
* "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)cite book
last = Bailey
first = Liberty Hyde
title = Cyclopedia of American agriculture: a popular survey of agricultural conditions, practices and ideals in the United States and Canada, In Four Volumes
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=ljiucRg4skwC
series = Volume II --Crops
accessdate = 2008-05-10
year = 1910
publisher = Macmillan Publishers
pages = 2016 pages]
* "The Outlook to Nature" (1911)
* "The Country Life Movement" (1911)
* "The Practical Garden Book" (1913)
* "The Holy Earth" (1915)

elected 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).

References

External links

* [http://lhbm.south-haven.com/ Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum, South Haven, Michigan]
* [http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/bailey A Man for All Seasons: Liberty Hyde Bailey. Cornell University Library Online Exhibition]
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* [http://cannanews.blogspot.com/2007/06/greatest-canna-exhibition-ever.html The Columbian Exposition, 1893]

Further reading

* cite encyclopedia
last = Rodgers
first = Andrew Denny, III
title = Bailey, Liberty Hyde
encyclopedia = Dictionary of Scientific Biography
volume = 1
pages = 395-397
publisher = Charles Scribner's Sons
location = New York
date = 1970
isbn = 0684101149