The Biographical Dictionary of America/Bailey, Liberty Hyde

BAILEY, Liberty Hyde, educator, was born at South Haven, Van Buren county, Mich., March 15, 1858, son of Liberty Hyde Bailey. He was graduated in 1882 from Michigan agricultural college, and for two years was assistant to Prof. Asa Gray of Harvard university. In 1885 he took the chair of horticulture and landscape gardening at Michigan agricultural college, and became horticulturist of the Michigan experiment station upon its organization a year or two later. In 1886 he assisted in preparing a report on botanical work in Minnesota. In 1889 he was appointed professor of general and experimental horticulture in Cornell university, and horticulturist of Cornell university experiment station. He was also employed by the U. S. government department of agriculture. Among his published writings are a series of papers on the "Relationship between American and Eastern Asian Fruits." published in the annual reports of the U. S. department of agriculture; also, "Talks Afleld about Plants and the Science of Plants" (18S5); "Field Notes on Apple Culture" (1886); "The Horticulturist's Rule-Book" (1889); "The Nursery Book" (1891); "Cross-breeding and Hybridizing" (1891); "American Grape Training" (1893); "Plant Breeding" (1895), and edited "Cyclopædia of American Horticulture" (1902).