U. P. Hedrick

Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick (1870–1951) was an American horticulturist and historian of fruit growing. After teaching in Oregon, Utah and Michigan, he joined the New York Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva, where he spent most of his career and became its director. He produced a celebrated series of illustrated monographs, The Grapes of New York, The Apples of New York, The Plums of New York and others, and wrote practical guides such as the Manual of American Grape-Growing (1919), as well as A History of Agriculture in the State of New York and A History of Horticulture in America.