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PROFESSOR L. H. BAILEY. 
The subject of this sketch is known throughout the 
United States and Canada as one of the foremost authorities 
upon horticultural subjects. He was born at South Haven 
Mich., in 1858, opposite Chicago, in the famous Michigan 
fruit and peach belt. He was reared in the fruit business. 
He graduated at the Michigan Agricultural college in 1882 
and for two years was assistant to the late Asa Gray at 
Harvard, the greatest botanist of America. In 1884-8 he 
was professor of horticulture and landscape gardening at the 
Michigan Agricultural college. He spent a part of 1888 in 
Pkirope. P'rom 1889 to the present time he has been pro¬ 
fessor of general and experimental horticulture in Cornell 
University. 
In 1886 Professor Bailey was one of a party of botan¬ 
ists to explore the botanical features of Northern Minnesota 
under the auspices of the Minnesota Geological and Natural 
History Survey. The first botany he ever saw was Gray’s 
P'ield, Forest and Garden botany, when a lad. This gave 
him a start. He is now employed by the trustees of Har¬ 
vard University to revise this book. Professor Bailey has 
had a good deal of journalistic experience. He was 
for one winter a reporter in the legislature of Illinois. 
He is now secretary-treasurer of the World’s Horticultural 
Society. Professor Bailey has written many articles for the 
horticultural journals of the country, has read many papers 
at society meetings and is the author of many reports, bul¬ 
letins and monographs. He was late editor of American 
Gardening. He has published a number of books of great 
value to horticulturists and nurserymen, among which are 
the following : “ Annals of Horticulture for 1889, 1890, 
1891 and 1892,” “ The Horticulturists Rule-Book,” “The 
Nursery Book, ” “ Cross-Breeding ,and Hybridizing, ” 
“American Grape Training,’’ “Field Notes on Apple 
Culture,” “ Talks Afield. ” 
WASHINGTON FRUIT CULTURE. 
. C. H. Ross of the state of Washington is a thorough¬ 
bred pioneer. He was born in a prairie schooner on top of 
the Blue Mountains of Oregon in 1851 while his parents 
were enroute to the Pacific coast. He has watched the de¬ 
velopment of the West with peculiar interest. In a paper 
before the recent fruit growers’ congress at Spokane he said 
that this is essentially a fruit age. Wheat, cotton and corn 
have each been king but now fruit is king. “ From care¬ 
fully prepared statistics said he, we find that Washington, 
at the end of the planting season of 1894, will have not far 
from 45,000 acres in fruit, which will produce about 20,000 
tons. In this Whitman county takes the lead, and will 
produce about 400 carloads : Yakima, 200 ; Clarke county, 
170; Lewis county, lOO; Kittitas 90; Thurston 90; Pierce 
PROFESSOR L. H. BAILEY. 
and King county are largely devoted to small fruits and 
market gardening ; the other counties varying from ten to 
sixty carloads each. In the matter of dried fruit, Clarke 
takes the lead and will produce about 35 carloads. In 
peaches. Whitman and Yakima counties will lead. Whitman 
having about 20,000 trees in bearing. It is estimated that 
about one and one-half million of trees will be planted this 
season. With these facts and figures before us, what may 
we expect in the next few years ? Doubtless thousands of 
carloads of fruit will be shipped from this state. ” 
Mr. Ross handles the tree peddler without gloves. He 
says : “ While our trees are comparatively free from insect 
pests it requires the utmost vigilence to keep out pests which 
are being shipped in from other states. This part of our 
work is a matter of great importance. The state of Massa¬ 
chusetts spent ;^350,000 for the destruction of a single pest 
known as the gipsy moth. Among all the pests we have 
to contend with, perhaps one of the most injurious is the 
eastern fruit tree peddler who comes to us with his oily 
tongue and beautiful pictures of imported fruits. When the 
goods are delivered you find the size and quality both infer¬ 
ior and that you have paid four prices for a lot of trash. 
We have several insect remedies, among others the lime, sul¬ 
phur and salt wash. The foreign fruit tree peddler being 
about the worst pest we have to contend with, we would 
recommend this solution applied with the Bean pump.” 
