THE EXHIBITION


Introduction
Biography
Botany
Horticulture
   The Garden Fence
   Cyclopedia of American Hort.
   Cucurbita Cultivars
   Squash Mediterranean
   Cucumber Cross
   Hortus
   Gentes Herbarum
NY State College of Agriculture
Cornell University
Nature Study
Education of Women
Commission on Country Life
Hortorium
Photography
Writings
Travel






HORTICULTURE

Bailey used his camera extensively to record horticultural experiments. Here, he has recorded the success of pollination experiments, inscribing directly onto the photographic prints.


Top: Liberty Hyde Bailey, Cucumber Cross: Sion House x Telegraph, and Cucumber Pollination Experiment, Sion House

Bottom: Liberty Hyde Bailey, Cucumber Pollination Experiments, Sion House, White Spine, and Cucumber Pollination Experiments, Sion House Field.

Cyanotype photographs from facing pages of L. H. Bailey’s photographic albums, 1891.

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