Description
Bailey, L. H. The Cultivated Evergreens: A Handbook of the Coniferous and Most Important Broad-Leaved Evergreens planted for Ornament in the United States and Canada. (MacMillan: New York, 1928). New Edition.
Octavo. xxii, 434 pages. 48 half-tone plates, 97 illustrations in text. Hardcover, bound in green cloth-covered boards with gilt stamped cover and spine. Top edge stained green, deckle-edged.
Condition: Some spotting to covers, slight curl to front cover. Endpapers show some staining, previous owner’s information on FFE. Hinges are undamaged, binding is ever so slightly shaken. Textblock clean.
“Liberty Hyde Bailey (March 15, 1858 – December 25, 1954) was an American horticulturist and botanist who was cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science. Bailey is credited with being instrumental in starting agricultural extension services, the 4-H movement, the nature study movement, parcel post and rural electrification. He was considered the father of rural sociology and rural journalism….
“He dominated the field of horticultural literature, writing some sixty-five books, which together sold more than a million copies, including scientific works, efforts to explain botany to laypeople, a collection of poetry; edited more than a hundred books by other authors and published at least 1,300 articles and over 100 papers in pure taxonomy. He also coined the words “cultivar”, “cultigen”, and “indigen”. His most significant and lasting contributions were in the botanical study of cultivated plants. Bailey’s publisher was George Platt Brett, Sr. of Macmillan Publishers.” – Wikipedia
