Nonfiction work

By: Liberty Hyde Bailey

Date: 1907

Source: Bailey, Liberty Hyde. Plant-Breeding: Being Six Lectures upon the Amelioration of Domestic Plants, 4th ed. New York: Macmillan, 1907, 155–157.

About the Author: Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858–1954) was born in South Haven, Michigan, and in 1884 became professor of horticulture at Michigan State University, where he established the first horticultural laboratory in the United States. In 1888, he joined the faculty at Cornell University, first as professor of botany and horticulture and later as dean of the College of Agriculture. He was the author of sixty-six books and seven hundred articles.

Introduction

Throughout the nineteenth century theories of heredity fell into two camps. Scientists in the first camp, such as French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, held that the environment affects...