Word: hortorium
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Cornell's College of Agriculture and until 1951 director of the university's world-famed Bailey Hortorium, for which he collected more than 250,000 plants;, in Ithaca, N.Y. In his endless search for plants, Dr. Bailey traveled more than 250,000 miles in tropical and semitropical lands (including a trip to West Indian jungles when he was 91), described his findings in more than 65 books. He saw the knowledge of plants as one of the great hopes of mankind and an expression of true internationalism. "My pinks," he once said, "speak all languages alike...
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