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grand one in which to develop and employ his admirable qualities of mind 

 and heart. 



During these later years he has not confined his attention to giving 

 tuition in horticulture to the students of Cornell, but has been teaching in 

 a far broader school; for as editor of American Gardening, which in many 

 respects was the finest horticultural publication in the world, he made his 

 impress upon the horticulture of America. 



He has written many books, attractive and valuable, illustrative of the 

 progress of the art to which he is devoted. Among them are "Talks 

 Afield," "Annals of Horticulture for 1889, 1890, 1891, 1892, and 1893," 

 "The Horticulturist's Kule Book," " The Nursery Book," " Cross-Breeding 

 and Hybridizing," "American Grape Training." 



He was associate editor in charge of agriculture, in revising the last 

 edition of Johnson's Encyclopedia, and is now engaged in revising Grey's 

 Field, Forest, and Garden Botany for the trustees of Harvard university. 



As horticulturist of the experiment station at Cornell university, Prof. 

 Bailey has done some of his best original work, the results of which have 

 been very thoroughly disseminated by means of bulletins and the 

 agricultural press. 



But the value of his work centers in his ardent endeavors to elevate 

 horticulture as an art and to emphasize the importance of the close rela- 

 tionship of scientific investigation to progress in skillful methods 

 employed in commercial gardening and fruitgrowing. 



The labor and influence which redounds most to his honor and useful- 

 ness are his earnest and persistent efforts to popularize rural life and its 

 possibilities, as aided by a knowledge of horticulture, and his stirring 

 appeals for an appreciation and utilization of the natural beauties of the 

 earth, especially in the forms of shrubs, trees, vines, and plants, in making 

 homes more attractive. He has spoken eloquently and written attractively 

 upon the preservation and maintenance of nature's beautiful forms, that 

 are so often sacrificed in "clearing up" a country. 



His warm and enthusiastic pleas in favor of choosing an occupation 

 which will not only enable men and women to have attractive dwelling 

 places, but be enabled through their occupation to bring into their lives 

 the sweetest things of the earth, have been a power for good throughout 

 our land in assisting toward more permanency in home life, and a larger 

 appreciation of horticulture as a factor of the happiest existence in this 

 world. 



The horticulturists of Michigan, and especially the Michigan Horticult- 

 ural society, feel honored in pointing to the work of Prof. L. H. Bailey, 



in behalf of an advanced horticulture. It gives us satisfaction to announce 



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