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Hundreds at Cornell know "Lib" Bailey, the nation's most eminent horticulturist, as an erect, white-haired man whom they used to see dragging strange bushes and branches across the campus to his laboratory, where he puttered and purred over them. Sometimes he would grab a visitor by the arm and whisk him off to his garden. There, showing off the blooms and blossoms he had collected from lonely hillsides and jungles all over the world, he would say that his field was the true internationalism: "My pinks speak all languages alike...
Edith's adoptive parents were Matthew Pierre, an ornithologist, and his wife Valerie, a horticulturist. Their home, "Wildwood," was a warbling, fragrant inferno of prize flowers and bird-feeding stations, surrounded by a rusty iron fence. Matthew was a cold-souled, pipe-fondling dispenser of gently eviscerating irony. Valerie's "pale unearthly face was . . . like some silky autumn pod." They were about as capable of love as a stuffed finch and a glass calla lily. Edith was twelve when she came to them, 21 when their death freed her. In all her years with them...
Died. John Reynard Todd, 77, lean, legally trained builder and manager of Manhattan's blossom-bedecked Rockefeller Center, and an avid amateur horticulturist (like his good friend Philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr.); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...flower-sniffing began last August, when Daily News Horticulturist-Publisher Manchester E. Boddy offered Promoter Smith some $250,000 worth of Southern California's flowering farmland for the give-away price of $25,000. Boddy ("the Ferdinand of the publishing business") wanted a lively marketing outlet for the flowers from his 165-acre horticultural wonder ranch at La Canada, Calif. Smith had rescued his newspaper from a slow circulation death with dazzling promotion campaigns. If Smith could sell the Daily News that was, reasoned Boddy, he could sell anything...
Dusty and footsore. Ulises Mejía trudged through the jungles and over mountains, straight across Honduras. At last he reached his goal, knocked on the door of the famed horticulturist, Dr. Wilson Popenoe, head of the School of Pan-American Agriculture at Zamorano. The school was not scheduled to open for two months, but Ulises had come to beg for admission. Last week Ulises, now a prize pupil, was receiving the best training in farming that Central America offers...