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Liberty Hyde Bailey (March 15, 1858 – December 25, 1954) was an American horticulturist and reformer of rural life. He was cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science . [ 1 ] : 10–15 As an energetic reformer during the Progressive Era , he was instrumental in starting agricultural extension services, the 4-H movement, the ...
B. Liberty Hyde Bailey; James Baker; Ray Stannard Baker; Terry Baker; John Henry Balch; William B. Bankhead; Doug Barnard Jr. James Bartleman; Ernest Bearg; Charles Minnigerode Beckwith
Harold E. Moore, Jr. (1917–1980), a botanist at the L. H. Bailey Hortorium at Cornell University, began his work on palms in 1948 with the encouragement of Bailey himself, who was then 90 years old. Bailey had wanted to create a "Genera Palmarum", a proper delineation of the palm family and all the genera within it. When Bailey died in 1954 ...
Cornell University professor Liberty Hyde Bailey was appointed chairman of the commission. Other members of the commission included agricultural scientist and sociologist Kenyon L. Butterfield , forester Gifford Pinchot , and "Uncle" Henry Wallace (1836-1916), co-founder and editor of the nationally influential magazine Wallaces' Farmer . [ 4 ] ("
In 1858, Liberty Hyde Bailey was born in this house; the younger Bailey spent 19 years living here, learning about the local wild animals and plants. [2] He entered Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University ) in 1878, and went on to become a well-known horticulturist , botanist and cofounder of the American Society for ...
Botanical taxa named by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858 – 1954). He is an American botanist , horticulturist and was the cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science . Pages in category "Taxa named by Liberty Hyde Bailey"
Baileya is a scientific journal of horticultural taxonomy, published quarterly by the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium (Cornell University). The journal was established in 1953, but is currently inactive. Its name honors the late Liberty Hyde Bailey.
In 1910, Liberty Hyde Bailey, the Dean of Cornell's Agriculture College, succeeded in having what remained of the Forestry College transferred to his school. At his request, in 1911, the legislature appropriated $100,000 to construct a building to house the new Forestry Department on the Cornell campus, which Cornell later named Fernow Hall .