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

Harvard University

Asa Gray, then America’s leading botanist, needed an assistant, and Beal recommended Bailey. By February 1883 Bailey was working at Harvard, arranging and classifying a large collection of pressed plants from Kew Gardens in London. He continued to learn from discussions with Gray about systematic and structural botany. Also significant to Bailey’s training were the vast collections at the Arnold Arboretum, the Cambridge Botanical Garden, the greenhouses and scientific agricultural work of the Bussey Institution, and the noted market gardens in nearby Arlington.


Liberty Hyde Bailey as a young man
Cabinet card photograph, ca. 1880

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