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Liberty Hyde Bailey was an accomplished botanist born on March 15, 1858, and passed away on December 25, 1954. He made significant contributions to the fields of botany, including plant taxonomy, plant geography, and plant breeding.

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Famous Liberty Hyde Bailey Quotes

“A garden is half made when it is well planned.”

Wells Made Half Garden

Author:Liberty Hyde Bailey

“One must first seek to love plants and nature, and then to cultivate that happy peace of mind which is satisfied with little. He will be happier if he has no rigid and arbitrary ideals, for gardens are coquettish, particularly with the novice.”

Ifs Mind Firsts Littles Ideals Garden Plant Simplicity Satisfied Peace Of Mind Arbitrary Novices

Author:Liberty Hyde Bailey

“Tools of many kinds and well chosen, are one of the joys of a garden.”

Wells Kind Joy Garden Tools Chosen

Book:Gardener's handbook, successor to The gardener: brief indications for the growing of common flowers, vegetables and fruits in the garden and about the home

Source: Gardener's handbook, successor to The gardener: brief indications for the growing of common flowers, vegetables and fruits in the garden and about the home

“A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.”

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Author:Liberty Hyde Bailey

“A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.”

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Book:The Pruning-manual: Being the 18th Ed., Rev. and Reset, of the Pruning-book which was First Published in 1898

Source: The Pruning-manual: Being the 18th Ed., Rev. and Reset, of the Pruning-book which was First Published in 1898

“Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.”

Giving Trying Children Matter Opportunity Grows Garden Plant

Author:Liberty Hyde Bailey

“One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the winds and rains, in birds and insects, in the warm-smelling earth.”

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Author:Liberty Hyde Bailey