Liberty Hyde Bailey was a horticulturist, botanist, professor, dean, environmentalist, poet, writer, sociologist, lobbyist, taxonomist, philosopher, and foremost expert on palm trees. He wore a lot of hats for one lifetime--even a lifetime that lasted ninety-six years. His career was remarkable for the magnitude of its accomplishments. As author, editor, teacher, and frequent public speaker, Bailey helped create the science of horticulture. His writing, which spanned eighty-one years, was prodigious. Between 1890 and 1940 he edited 117 titles by 99 authors covering subjects in agronomy, economics, botany, animal husbandry, dairy industry, soils and fertilizers, plant pathology, commercial floriculture, and home economics.
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This is a reprint of the revised and enlarged first edition of this classic, published in 1949.
