BIOGEAPHICAL SKETCH 



OF 



PROF. L. H. BAILEY 



Prof. L. H. Bailey is a Michigan product. We are proud of his success 

 in life and we are glad the impulse which has enabled him to reach a posi- 

 tion in which he can wield a potent influence for good, was given him in 

 our state. 



He was well born and his early formative years were spent in an atmos- 

 phere which was redolent of fruits and flowers. It was not a mere 

 sentimental appreciation of the good things of horticulture, but the com- 

 mercial spirit was uppermost, and the all-important question of *' Will it 

 pay" was constantly before him. The village of South Haven was his 

 birthplace and the date, 1858, was before our famous peach belt was a 

 matter of great notoriety. 



Bailey's taste, even in his early boyhood, led him into interesting fields 

 of investigation. He had a passion for the acquirement of knowledge in 

 the realm of natural history, and while he was criticised by the older, very 

 knowing ones for chasing bugs and butterflies, hunting wild flowers, and 

 watching the habits of birds, he was nursing the germ which has grown 

 and not only made him famous, but enabled him to do a noble work for 

 horticulture, and none are more proud of his achievements than his early 

 critics. 



His early contributions to the programme of the local horticultural 

 society were suggestive of the later lines of investigation which he has 

 undertaken, and in the early official horticultural literature of our state 

 are contributions from his boyhood's pen. 



He took the course at our State Agricultural college and was a marked 



