1888-1913:  Cornell Years

1888: Appointed Professor of General and Experimental Horticulture at Cornell.  1889: Second daughter Ethel Zoe Bailey born on November 17, 1889. 1893: Founding member of the Botanical Society of America. 1894: New York State grants the first public funds to Cornell to use in the teaching of nature-study in New York rural schools. Bailey uses the funds for the publication of the Rural School Leaflets. 1900-1902: Bailey is editor and main contributor to the Cyclopedia of American Horticulture. 1903: Bailey becomes founder and first president of the American Society for Horticultural Science. Publishes The Nature-Study Idea, a collection of essays on education. 1904: Lobbys for and succeeds in getting a bill for the establishment of a State College of Agriculture at Cornell University passed in the New York State Legislature, and becomes Dean. 1906: Bailey becomes president of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations. 1908: President Theodore Roosevelt appoints Bailey as chair of the Commission on Country Life. 1908: Bailey founds and becomes the first president of the American Nature Study Society. 1910: Bailey writes the Report of the Commission on Country Life.1912: Death of Liberty Hyde Bailey Sr. 1913: Bailey retires and continues writing, exploring, and traveling the world to collect plants.

Bailey guiding the plow for the groundbreaking for the Roberts Hall on May 1, 1905.