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1913-1954: Leisure
1914: Bailey writes The Holy Earth. Though the book is not a
financial success, Bailey nevertheless feels it will endure. The
Smith-Lever Act passes as result of
the Commission on Country Life’s work establishing a system of
cooperative extension services, 4-H Youth Programs, initiation of the U.S.
Parcel Post system, and the beginnings of support for rural electrification
and rural communication systems. 1921:
Serves as president of the American Pomological
Society. 1925: Bailey is named president of the International
Botanical Congress. 1926: Bailey becomes president
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Botanical Society
of America. 1930:
Publishes Hortus,
a guide to cultivated plants in North America. 1935: Bailey gives his herbarium and
its library to Cornell University: "Call it an Hortorium... A repository for
things of the garden — a place for the scientific study of garden plants,
their documentation, their classification, and their naming." The Hortorium becomes the major U. S. center for the systematics of cultivated plants. September,
1938: Bailey's
birth home in South Haven, Michigan is gifted to the city as a memorial to Bailey. 1946-1947: Bailey collects
plants in the Caribbean
and South
America. 1948:
Cornell University celebrates Bailey’s 90th birthday. December 25th, 1954:
Liberty Hyde Bailey dies at
his home in Ithaca, New
York, at 96.
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