L. H. Bailey

Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858–1954) was an American horticulturist, botanist and educator. Born in South Haven, Michigan, he worked as an assistant to Asa Gray at Harvard and taught at Michigan Agricultural College before moving to Cornell in 1888, where he became dean of the College of Agriculture. He chaired Theodore Roosevelt's Country Life Commission, edited the Cyclopedia of American Horticulture, and wrote dozens of books, from the Manual of Gardening to The Holy Earth, a meditation on humanity's duty to the land. He founded the Bailey Hortorium at Cornell and continued botanical fieldwork into his nineties.