THE EXHIBITION


Introduction
Biography
   Liberty Hyde Bailey, Sr.
   Sarah Harrison Bailey
   Letter from L.H.B., Sr.
   The Bailey Homestead
   L.H.B. as a Boy
   L. H. B., “Birds”
   L.H.B. and Friends
   L.H.B. as a Young Man
   Bailey Family
   Ethel Zoe Bailey and L.H.B.
Botany
Horticulture
NY State College of Agriculture
Cornell University
Nature Study
Education of Women
Commission on Country Life
Hortorium
Photography
Writings
Travel


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BIOGRAPHY

Ethel accompanied her father on collecting trips until 1938. She helped collect specimens, pressing them under hundreds of damp blotters on lawns, hotel roofs or verandas, scrambling for them when the usual quick tropical showers came, and wrapping parcels to ship home.


Ethel Zoe Bailey and Liberty Hyde Bailey on the Orinoco River in Venezuela, 1921

Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium Collection

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