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horticulture: Quick Facts

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Liberty Hyde Bailey
Liberty Hyde Bailey
American botanist
John Lindley, engraving, 1865, after a photograph
John Lindley
British botanist
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Francisco de Paula Marín
Spanish horticulturalist
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Thomas Andrew Knight
British horticulturalist
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André Parmentier
American horticulturalist
Michurin, Ivan Vladimirovich
Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin
Russian horticulturalist