Fruit Growing - With Information on Location, Varieties, Selection, Soils and Other Aspects of Fruit Growing

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Description

This botanical book details the intricacies of commercial fruit-growing from preparation to cultivation, harvesting, and, finally, packaging and sale. An interesting and insightful book, Fruit Growing is a compete manual for the commercial fruit-grower, containing timelessly important information imperative to the success of such endeavours to this day. Written by the prolific Liberty Hyde Bailey, this text is a must-have for any prospective farmers of enthusiasts of Bailey’s work. Liberty Hyde Bailey was a famous American horticulturist and botanist who founded the American Society for Horticultural Science. This book has been chosen for its educational value is proudly republished here with a new introductory biography of the author.

Informations

• Publié par: Read Books Ltd.
• Date de parution: 06 août 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781528763769
• Langue: English

Extrait

Fruit Growing
With Information on Location, Varieties, Selection, Soils and Other Aspects of Fruit Growing
By
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Copyright 2013 Read Books Ltd. This book is copyright and may not be reproduced or copied in any way without the express permission of the publisher in writing
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Contents
Liberty Hyde Bailey
FRUIT GROWING
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Liberty Hyde Bailey was born on 15 March 1858 in the small town of South Haven, Michigan, USA. He was the third son of farmers Liberty Hyde Bailey Sr. and Sarah Harrison Bailey and possessed a keen interest in horticulture and botany from an early age. Bailey entered Michigan Agricultural College in 1878 and graduated four years later. In 1883 he became assistant to the renowned botanist Asa Gray; a remarkable achievement for a young man straight out of university. The same year as this success, Bailey married Annette Smith, with whom he had two daughters, Sara May, born in 1887, and Ethel Zoe, born in 1889. Moving on from his apprenticeship with Asa Gray, Bailey moved to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in 1885 and was appointed chair of Practical and Experimental Horticulture three years later. He enjoyed considerable success in this position and became an Associate Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1900. Bailey s incredible rise throughout the academic and horticultural world continued on his appointment, by Theodore Roosevelt, as Chairman of the National Commission on Country Life in 1908. Roosevelt was a renowned lover of America s farmland and countryside, and welcomed the 1909 report of the commission which called for rebuilding a great agricultural civilisation in America. Bailey strongly believed, in an agrarian tradition harking back to Thomas Jefferson, that rural civilisation was a vital and wholesome alternative to impersonal and corrupting city life. He especially endorsed family life, and the family farm as having a benign influence on societal responsibilities. Bailey s real legacy was the themes and direction he gave to the new agrarian movement however, promoting inclusive as opposed to exclusive sociability, as well as welcoming technological progress. Bailey retired in 1913 to become a private scholar and devote more of his time to social and political issues. Before this date though, he was very involved in editing academic works; The Cyclopedia of American Agriculture (1907-09) and the Cyclopedia of American Horticulture (1900-02). He was also the founding editor of the journals Country Life in America and the Cornell Countryman . Bailey dominated the field of horticultural literature, and in total wrote sixty-five books, which together sold over a million copies. His most significant contributions to the field were in the botanical study of cultivated plants, notably emphasising the importance of Gregor Mendel s work on cross breeding and hybridizing. Bailey died on Christmas Day, 1954. He has been memorialised at Cornell University , by dedicating Bailey Hall in his honour as well as Michigan State University who created the Liberty Hyde Ba