tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19895214261277402202024-02-07T05:02:09.860-05:00Liberty Hyde Bailey BlogThe Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum educates people about America’s Father of Modern Horticulture through preserving his birth site and promoting his vision linking horticulture and the environment to everyday life.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598020308907428554noreply@blogger.comBlogger159125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989521426127740220.post-4648151898599727072013-11-20T16:52:00.002-05:002013-11-20T16:56:57.137-05:00There is No Excellence Without Labor<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0dM5vNexaA8tZVlzHNfft8oJLDY08x2B-o9Tjs6FY8J4hNhvrcqS5_sJxAyVps_doWiZRBXuTxgsPy9rOEk84qm2N0mg1H8yaXH-gXcgiu8OletZO_h33yQeDzZ6BbQuwWcz5a1oQraE/s1600/quote-there-is-no-excellence-without-labor-one-cannot-dream-oneself-into-either-usefulness-or-happiness-liberty-hyde-bailey-10080.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0dM5vNexaA8tZVlzHNfft8oJLDY08x2B-o9Tjs6FY8J4hNhvrcqS5_sJxAyVps_doWiZRBXuTxgsPy9rOEk84qm2N0mg1H8yaXH-gXcgiu8OletZO_h33yQeDzZ6BbQuwWcz5a1oQraE/s320/quote-there-is-no-excellence-without-labor-one-cannot-dream-oneself-into-either-usefulness-or-happiness-liberty-hyde-bailey-10080.jpg" width="320" /></a><span class="gstxt_hlt" style="font-family: serif; text-indent: 26.559999465942383px;"><i>I came across an abbreviated quote by Bailey about excellence. However, you need the full quote for the full meaning. Here it is and keep your dreams alive!</i></span><br />
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<span class="gstxt_hlt" style="font-family: serif; text-indent: 26.559999465942383px;">There is no excellence without labor.</span><span style="font-family: serif; text-indent: 26.559999465942383px;">One cannot dream himself into either usefulness or happiness. Every person needs the dream, if he </span><span class="gstxt_hlt" style="font-family: serif; text-indent: 26.559999465942383px;">is </span><span style="font-family: serif; text-indent: 26.559999465942383px;">to be sensitive to his place in the world and if he would really accomplish; but the result comes only through good application.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: serif; text-indent: 26.559999465942383px;"> -<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=H-cxAQAAMAAJ&dq=there%20is%20no%20excellence%20without%20labor%20L.H.%20Bailey&pg=RA1-PA3#v=onepage&q=there%20is%20no%20excellence%20without%20labor%20L.H.%20Bailey&f=false" target="_blank">L.H. Bailey, October 1911</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598020308907428554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989521426127740220.post-58979136383672473932013-05-27T20:05:00.000-04:002014-09-05T15:19:00.354-04:00All Children are Born to the Natural Sky<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua"; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-default-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-greek-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Book Antiqua"; mso-ligatures: none;">We know it is not right that any family should be doomed to the occupancy of a very few dreary rooms and deathly closets in the depths of great cities, seeing that all children are born to the natural sky and to the wind and to the earth. We do not yet see the way to allow them to have what is naturally theirs, but we shall learn how. <strong><em>-</em></strong> <em><strong>L.H. Bailey, The Holy Earth</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">An Herb is a plant which dies to the ground each year. It may be annual, as
bean, candytuft, pigweed; biennial, as mullein, parsnip; perennial, as burdock,
foxglove, rhubarb. To the gardener, however, the word Herb is ordinarily
synonymous with herbaceous perennial; and he usually has in mind those
particular perennial Herbs which are grown for ornament, and which remain where
they are planted. Goldenrods, bleeding heart, sweet William, hollyhock,
daffodils are examples. To many persons, however, the word Herb is synonymous
with Sweet Herb, and it suggests sage and tansy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> Herbs have two kinds of values, —their
intrinsic merits as individual plants, and their value in the composition or
the mass. It is usually possible to secure both these values at one and the
same time. In fact, the individual beauty of Herbs is enhanced rather than
diminished by exercising proper care in placing them. Planted with other
things, they have a background, and the beauties are brought out the stronger
by contrast and comparison. It is quite as important, therefore, to consider
the place for planting as to choose the particular kinds of plants. The
appreciation of artistic effects in plants is a mark of highly developed
sensibilities. Happily, this appreciation is rapidly growing; and this fact
contributes to the increasing popularity of landscape gardening and ornamental
gardening. Some of the best effects in Herb planting are to be seen in the
wild, particularly along fences, roads and streams. In interpreting these
native effects, the planter must remember that Herbs are likely to grow larger
and more bushy in cultivation than in the wild. He should cover the bare and
unseemly places about the borders of his place. He may utilize a rock or a wall
as a background (Fig. 1043). He may hide the ground line about a post or along a fence. Some of the commonest Herbs are
handsome when well grown and well placed. Always plant where the Herbs will have
relation to something else,—to the general design or handling of the place.
This will usually be about the boundaries The hardy border is the unit in most
planting of herbs. A rockwork Herb border is often useful in the rear or at one
side of the premises. Fill some of the corners by the house. In remote parts of
the grounds, half-wild effects may be allowed. A pond or a pool, even if
stagnant, often may be utilized to advantage. A good Herb out of place may be
worse than a poor Herb in place. But when Herbs are grown for their individual
effects, give plenty of room and good care: aim at a perfect specimen. <b><i>-L.H. Bailey, Cyclopedia of American Horticulture, 1900</i></b></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598020308907428554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989521426127740220.post-60903577407443884922013-02-27T20:06:00.001-05:002013-02-27T20:06:46.756-05:00May Dreams Gardens: Garden of Desire<a href="http://www.maydreamsgardens.com/2013/02/garden-of-desire.html?spref=bl">May Dreams Gardens: Garden of Desire</a>: It was Liberty Hyde Bailey who wrote in The Gardener (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1925), " Gardening is more than the gro...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598020308907428554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989521426127740220.post-22721592930266222482013-02-27T19:58:00.001-05:002013-02-27T19:58:48.345-05:00Liberty Hyde Bailey Interpretive Garden Path: Great Backyard Bird Count!<a href="http://lhbitrail.blogspot.com/2013/02/great-backyard-bird-count.html?spref=bl">Liberty Hyde Bailey Interpretive Garden Path: Great Backyard Bird Count!</a>: Russ Schipper and students looking at birds This past Friday my students participated in the Great North Ame...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598020308907428554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989521426127740220.post-44359629639923095502013-02-12T12:53:00.000-05:002013-02-12T13:02:35.249-05:00Birds-Bailey's First Published Essay<div class="gtxt_body" style="text-align: left;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwoIf12S3XVMb-41g-U66qRE_A9roQIksc-4maCajYWGKon2TvtnU97eWb20WzhUzx2KkmOAHcpPj13Qlp-m1UITr_-rqIZiVjlCxsfRSaJ8ZhAv786dKXZRieYyprI62CRfcf95U4Guw/s1600/RMC2004_5008_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwoIf12S3XVMb-41g-U66qRE_A9roQIksc-4maCajYWGKon2TvtnU97eWb20WzhUzx2KkmOAHcpPj13Qlp-m1UITr_-rqIZiVjlCxsfRSaJ8ZhAv786dKXZRieYyprI62CRfcf95U4Guw/s320/RMC2004_5008_1.jpg" width="224" /></a><span class="gstxt_hlt"><em>With the annual <strong><a href="http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc" target="_blank">Great Backyard Bird Count</a></strong> coming-up on Friday, February 15th and with students and teachers at the </em><a href="http://lhbitrail.blogspot.com/2013/02/winter-on-trail.html" target="_blank"><em>Liberty Hyde Bailey Interpretive Garden Path</em></a><em> doing their part, it is fitting to feature the first published essay by a young L.H. Bailey fittingly entitled, "<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=D9tOAAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA127&ots=-SKFbc0Y2U&dq=Birds.%20An%20Essay%20Read%20Before%20the%20Michigan%20State%20Pomological%20Society%20at%20South%20Haven%2C%20Sept.%204%2C%201873&pg=PA127#v=onepage&q=Birds.%20An%20Essay%20Read%20Before%20the%20Michigan%20State%20Pomological%20Society%20at%20South%20Haven,%20Sept.%204,%201873&f=false" target="_blank">Birds</a>."</em></span></div>
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<span class="gstxt_hlt">BIRDS: </span><span class="gstxt_hlt">AN ESSAY READ BEFORE THE MICHIGAN STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCI</span>ETY <span class="gstxt_hlt">AT SOUTH HAVEN, SEPT. 4, 1873, </span>BY MASTER L. H. BAILEY, A LAD OF FIFTEEN YEARS.</div>
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<span style="font-variant: small-caps;"> Mr. </span><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">President, </span><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Ladies </span><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">And </span><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Gentlemen,</span>—When <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>rigors of winter are over, and <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>pleasant days of spring return, what is more charming and delightful than <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>presence of <span class="gstxt_hlt">birds</span>? What is more useful in destroying <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>myriads of insects which infest our vegetation? Each one, from <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>different kind of insects it destroys, is almost indispensable to every farmer and fruit grower. As to food, our common <span class="gstxt_hlt">birds </span>may be divided into three classes ; first, insectivorous, or insect eaters, which include <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>blue bird, wren, swallows, nut-hatch, kingbird, and woodpecker.</div>
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<span class="gstxt_hlt"> The </span><span style="font-style: italic;">bluebird, </span>which is one of <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>earliest comers and most beneficial of all our singing <span class="gstxt_hlt">birds, </span>feeds principally on cut-worms, grasshoppers, and beetles. Like <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>wren, he will build in most any little box put up for <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>purpose.</div>
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Next in order is that familiar little bird <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span><span style="font-style: italic;">wren. </span>It subsists mostly on millers and larvae; on account of its small size it destroys a good many insects which other <span class="gstxt_hlt">birds </span>do not.</div>
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<span class="gstxt_hlt"> The </span>numerous <span style="font-style: italic;">swallow </span>family feed upon beetles, mosquitoes, and other <span class="gstxt_hlt">winged </span>insects.</div>
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<span class="gstxt_hlt"> The </span><span style="font-style: italic;">nut-hatch, </span>though not so well known as <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>preceding species, is one of our most useful orchard <span class="gstxt_hlt">birds. </span>You may see him creeping about <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>trees with head downwards, destroying every insect that comes in his way. He suspends his nest underneath a limb, and it is composed of fine twigs and <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>inside layer of bark.</div>
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<span class="gstxt_hlt"> The </span><span style="font-style: italic;">kingbird, </span>or tyrant fly-catcher, subsists mostly on beetles, flies, and all sorts of winged insects. Observe him perched upon some old mullen stalk, capturing every insect that comes in sight, and see if he does not fully repay for <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>few bees he destroys.</div>
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<span class="gstxt_hlt"> The </span><span style="font-style: italic;">woodpeckers </span>feed upon beetles and larvae. They also destroy <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>apple tree borer.</div>
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Class second is called granivorous, or grain-eating <span class="gstxt_hlt">birds, </span>which include <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>thistle, or yellow bird, cedar bird, chipping sparrow, and ground bird.</div>
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<span class="gstxt_hlt"> The </span><span style="font-style: italic;">yellow </span><span style="font-style: italic;">bird, </span>though not insectivorous, may be regarded as our friend. His food consists chiefly of <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>seeds of thistles and other weeds, thus destroying a great many noxious plants.</div>
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<span class="gstxt_hlt"> The </span><span style="font-style: italic;">cedar </span><span style="font-style: italic;">bird, </span>or cherry bird as he is commonly called, feeds almost entirely upon fruit, although in <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>spring he destroys <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>canker worm. Nut<span class="gtxt_body">tall says: "For hours together he may be seen feeding on <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>all-despoiling canker worm, which infests our apple and elm trees."</span></div>
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<span class="gstxt_hlt">The </span>third class of <span class="gstxt_hlt">birds </span>is called omnivorous, or all-eaters, which include <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>robin, thrush, lark, and cat-bird.</div>
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In <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>spring <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>robin destroys <span class="gstxt_hlt">an </span>immense number of cut worms and injurious insects. Later in <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>season he takes to fruit.</div>
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<span class="gstxt_hlt"> The </span><span style="font-style: italic;">thrush, </span>or brown thrasher, feeds mostly on beetles, larvae, and berries. <span class="gstxt_hlt">The </span><span style="font-style: italic;">lark </span>seems to subsist upon grubs, worms and seeds. <span class="gstxt_hlt">The </span>food of <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span><span style="font-style: italic;">cat-bird </span>is mostly larvae, pear slugs, and fruit.</div>
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Thus nearly all <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>noxious insects which infest our fields and forests are devoured. Thousands are destroyed in a day by these harmless songsters, yet <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>selfish man dooms them to destruction. But this is not all; they have powers of music unequaled by works of art. Their charming songs and beautiful plumage lend life and vivacity to <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>dullest place:</div>
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<span class="gstxt_hlt">The </span>robin sings sweetly from her native bowers, <br />
<span class="gstxt_hlt">The humming </span>bird sips <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>dewy flowers, <br />
And <span class="gstxt_hlt">the blue-jay's </span>voice is often heard <br />
From <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>forest, by fragrant breezes stirred.<br />
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<span class="gstxt_hlt">The </span>thrush, perched upon some lofty tree <br />
That overshades <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>way. <br />
Pours forth her song with joy and glee, <br />
As if to welcome <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>coming day. <br />
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<span class="gstxt_hlt">The </span>lark's sweet warble from <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>grassy dale <br />
Mingles with <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>lay of <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>cat bird and quail, <br />
And <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>chipping sparrows afford a charm <br />
To <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>thicket as well as <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>farm. <br />
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<span class="gstxt_hlt">The </span>wren chants merrily from <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>spreading trees <br />
That surround her home of <span class="gstxt_hlt">delight, </span><br />
She smooths her pinions in <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>passing breeze <br />
And sings from morning until night. <br />
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<span class="gstxt_hlt">The </span>blue <span class="gstxt_hlt">birds </span>warble from <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>orchards fair, <br />
And <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>swallows twitter as they fly through <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>air, <br />
And <span class="gstxt_hlt">the yellow</span>-bird's notes from <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>neighboring hill <br />
Resound to <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>echoing whip-poor-will. <br />
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Among <span class="gstxt_hlt">the birds </span>so beautiful and gay <br />
I love to wander all day long; <br />
On pinions of light they fly away <br />
And join <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>universal revel of song. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="gstxt_hlt">The </span>April sun is soft on <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>broad open fenced fields, waking them gently from <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>long deep sleep of winter. Little rills are running full. <span class="gstxt_hlt">The </span>grass is newly coolly green. Fresh sprouts are in <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>sod. By copse and highway <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>shade bushes salute with their handkerchiefs. <span class="gstxt_hlt">Apple-trees </span>show tips of verdure. It is good to see <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>early greens of changing spring. It is good to look abroad on an <span class="gstxt_hlt">apple-tree </span>landscape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As to its vegetation, <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>landscape is low and flat, not tall. There is a vast uniformity in plant forms, a subdued and constrained humility. A month later <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>leafage will be in glory, but that also will have an aspect of sameness and moderation. Perhaps <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>actual variety of species will be greater than in many parts of <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>abounding tropics, and to <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>careful observer <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>luxuriance will be as great, although not so big; but as I look abroad I am impressed with <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>economy of <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>prospect. It comes nearer to my powers of assimilation, quiets me with a deep satisfaction; <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>contrasts are subdued, <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>processes grade into each other imperceptibly in <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>land of <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>lingering twilight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In this prospect are maples and elms and <span class="gstxt_hlt">apple-trees. The </span>maples and elms are of <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>fields and roadsides. <span class="gstxt_hlt">The </span><span class="gtxt_body"><span class="gstxt_hlt">apple-trees </span>are of human habitations and human labor; they cluster about <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>buildings, or stand guard at a gate; they are in plantations made by hands. As I see them again, I wonder whether any other plant is so characteristically a <span class="gstxt_hlt">home-tree.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> So is <span class="gstxt_hlt">the apple-tree, </span>even when full grown, within <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>reach of children. It can be climbed. Little swings are hung from <span class="gstxt_hlt">the </span>branches. Its shade is low and familiar. It bestows its fruit liberally to all alike.<b><i>- L.H. Bailey, The Apple Tree</i></b></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598020308907428554noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989521426127740220.post-38843721862934350892013-01-28T20:17:00.001-05:002014-09-05T15:18:32.834-04:00The Feeling For Plants<div style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none; mso-thai-font-family: "Angsana New";"> One does not make a good library till one has a feeling for books, nor a good collection of pictures without a feeling for pictorial art. Neither does one make a good garden of any kind without a feeling for plants. This does not mean that the feeling must be born with the person. It would be a hopeless world if we could not acquire new sentiments and enthusiasms. One can cultivate a feeling for plants by carefully observing them, growing them, reading about them, and particularly by choosing the company of persons who know and love them. As soon as one begins to distinguish the different kinds closely, one acquires the feeling of acquaintanceship; every kind then has its own qualities, and every kind is admirable in itself. Plants have personality.</span></div>
<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none; mso-thai-font-family: "Angsana New";"> </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none; mso-thai-font-family: "Angsana New";">The interest in plants is primarily, I suppose, in their forms. They are endlessly diverse. Vine, herb, tree, shrub, aquatic, they inhabit the earth and clothe it, and give significance to scenery. The greenery of <span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none; mso-thai-font-family: "Angsana New";">vegetation is the mantle and the garnish of the planet. Leaf-forms, flower-forms, fragrances, shapes and colors and odors in fruits, twig-habit and bark and buds are all perfect of their kind. To admire a plant is to be keen in observation, appreciative of nature, responsive in sympathy and suggestion.</span></span><br />
<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none; mso-thai-font-family: "Angsana New";"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none; mso-thai-font-family: "Angsana New";"> </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none; mso-thai-font-family: "Angsana New";">The plant-grower has a special intimacy with his plants. They respond to his care; they come up slowly from the seed or the cutting; they take on new forms and adapt themselves to the conditions he provides. Often will one see a gardener run his fingers over the stem or branches and pass his hand over the foliage as if caressing the plant. </span></span><br />
<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none; mso-thai-font-family: "Angsana New";"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none; mso-thai-font-family: "Angsana New";"> </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none; mso-thai-font-family: "Angsana New";">The lover of plants enjoys them in their surroundings, in the places where they grow. When they seem to fit the place, or become a part of the general composition, they have the added beauty of association, one plant complementing another. The growth-form of one differs from the form of another; the color and fashion of bark are different; the foliage effects are distinct; yet they may not be inharmonious.</span></span><br />
<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none; mso-thai-font-family: "Angsana New";"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none; mso-thai-font-family: "Angsana New";"> </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none; mso-thai-font-family: "Angsana New";">The plant-lover responds to the plants as they grow in the wild. The bush by the roadside interests him; he looks for it as he comes and goes. The fence-row has its charm, even though he must cut it out to make room for crops. The herbs and the trees, the plant-forms in the marsh, all awaken a pleasurable response. He wants to <span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none; mso-thai-font-family: "Angsana New";">transfer them to his grounds. It is well to have a nursery plot at one side, out of sight and out of the way, to which all kinds of things from the wild may be transferred. As they grow, some of them may be wanted for the grounds, and in any case, there is the pleasure of anticipation, of experiment.</span></span></span><br />
<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none; mso-thai-font-family: "Angsana New";"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none; mso-thai-font-family: "Angsana New";"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none; mso-thai-font-family: "Angsana New";"> </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none; mso-thai-font-family: "Angsana New";">Much of the interest in plants is conditioned on the seasonal changes. In this are they unlike animals, and hereby do they have a special charm. The swelling of the buds in spring marks an epoch: the birds come back; the creeks are overflowing; a new odor rises from the earth; the sky is soft; the men and teams take to the fields. Then the buds burst, the leaves unfold and grow, the branches lengthen, the foliage is complete, the flowers come and fade, fruit appears; then comes the yellowing of the leaf, the dropping one by one as the autumn moves on, and finally the bare twigs go well prepared and secure into the great test of winter. Next year, will the miracle be repeated? We know it will!</span></span></span><br />
<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none; mso-thai-font-family: "Angsana New";"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none; mso-thai-font-family: "Angsana New";"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none; mso-thai-font-family: "Angsana New";"> </span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none; mso-thai-font-family: "Angsana New";">After a time one expresses one's knowledge and skill in the raising of plants. The kinds come to be familiar. The books and catalogues have a new meaning. Acquisitions are prized. Experiment is fascinating. One is proud of one's workmanship. Then does the growing of plants become a real enthusiasm.</span></span></span><br />
<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none; mso-thai-font-family: "Angsana New";"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none; mso-thai-font-family: "Angsana New";"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none; mso-thai-font-family: "Angsana New";"> </span></span></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none; mso-thai-font-family: "Angsana New";"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none; mso-thai-font-family: "Angsana New";"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none; mso-thai-font-family: "Angsana New";"><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-armenian-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-currency-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-default-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-greek-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hebrew-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latin-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ligatures: none; mso-thai-font-family: "Angsana New";">No modern home that has a yard is meeting its best opportunities unless it exhibits a discriminating feeling for plants. One owes it to oneself to cultivate an appreciation of plants, of gardens, and of landscapes. One owes it to one's family and to the children. -<em><strong>L.H. Bailey, Home Grounds: Their Planning and Planting</strong></em></span></span></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598020308907428554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989521426127740220.post-52525940489752427232013-01-14T20:04:00.000-05:002014-09-05T15:19:28.010-04:00L.H. Bailey on the Oak Tree<div class="gtxt_column" style="background-color: clear; margin-bottom: 0.5em;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, serif;">OAK: Strength, solidity, durability are symbolized in the Oak. The tree is connected with the traditions of the race, and it is associated with literature. It is a tree of strong individuality, with bold, free growth and massive framework. Its longevity appeals to every person, even though he has no feeling for trees. It connects the present with the past. It spans the centuries.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"> This feeling that the Oak represents a long span of years is itself the reason why we should consider the tree with veneration and let it live its full time; and this is the particular lesson which the writer would impress. Spare the isolated Oak trees! Of whatever kind or species, a mature Oak is beyond price. To allow it to remain bespeaks culture and kindly feeling.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, serif;"><i><b>-L.H. Bailey, Cyclopedia of American Horticulture</b></i></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598020308907428554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989521426127740220.post-22734692166122634222013-01-08T11:58:00.001-05:002013-01-08T11:58:25.862-05:00Winter Wildlife Gardening<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ernie Allison loves nature. More specifically, he loves birds and wants to teach others how to appreciate them, too. To help further this mission, he writes for the bird feeder accessories provider, <a href="http://www.birdfeeders.com/store/feeder-accessories" target="_blank">birdfeeders.com<o:p></o:p></a>.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It is pretty well-known that gardening can be great for your health. It offers stress relief, exercise, improves mental health, and provides you with fresh food to eat and beautiful plants to look at. It is also good for the environment. By making specific choices, you can provide native plants that are great for the local wildlife to thrive off of, especially in the winter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Many people assume that you need to cut down all your plants and kill your garden before winter does. This is a lot of unnecessary work. By leaving your garden as is, you allow nature to take its course, which gives shelter and food sources for native animals. Here are some benefits of leaving your garden be for the winter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Snow is known to bend large plants. This of course eliminates perches for birds, but creates pathways for them as well as other creatures to utilize. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Piles of leaves provide a warm shelter for small animals. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Cutting the tops off plants can actually cause them to die completely due to the cold. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Worms and other bugs may take shelter also, which will attract birds for your viewing pleasure, especially in the spring when everyone warms up and comes out to feed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">By skipping the needless landscaping, you save yourself a lot of stress, which is what gardening is all about! Why clean up your garden in the fall and the spring, when you can get away with doing it once, and have better results!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">You can use your extra time to watch the wildlife and plan your garden strategy for the spring</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Here are some extras you can do in order to provide for the winter wildlife in your area. After all, not everyone sleeps all winter, and freezing temperatures can make food difficult to find.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Choose seed and berry producing plants that can stand up to the winter cold. Some options are:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Virginia Creeper</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New';"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">o<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">See what’s native to your area</span><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">If you choose to supplement with a bird feeder, be sure to get your seed from a source that is guaranteed not to use pesticides or other harmful ingredients. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Minimize the mullet, and remember that bread is bad for birds. Stick with nuts, seeds, and other unprocessed foods. For more information on what food to choose, check out this resource page about <a href="http://www.birdfeeders.com/advice/bird-feeding" target="_blank">feeding birds</a>.</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">By using your gardening habit to benefit the wildlife around you, you are spreading the health benefits that gardening brings to you. That should help you sleep easier at night, on top of everything else. </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598020308907428554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989521426127740220.post-11942682997021141472013-01-02T15:58:00.001-05:002014-09-05T15:19:50.714-04:00Vegetable-Gardening Tools<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Kk7empYbxonWWAsTPagJ19N7BU2QwuhocZ-4k_V9fLK5H1P-_J9L25G2C3kpScG3-kD0mHZQBm3V6v4heQgixSkvbg3dITwEy9FQK99OigQjbs6qkjzQfvyTLGE0lKFdZygLyP6nxrM/s1600/tumblr_m48etxLsFF1rtuq4fo1_500.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a> <span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 11pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-arabic-font-family: Times; mso-armenian-font-family: Times; mso-ascii-font-family: Times; mso-currency-font-family: Times; mso-cyrillic-font-family: Times; mso-default-font-family: Times; mso-greek-font-family: Times; mso-hebrew-font-family: Times; mso-latin-font-family: Times; mso-latinext-font-family: Times; mso-ligatures: none;">There is a tool for every labor. Many of these tools are the products of necessity. Others satisfy the inventive fancy of the American. Foreign writers wonder at the variety of tools pictured in our rural books, but the number of tools which are in actual use far exceeds those which are described in books. To an important degree it is true that the successful American farmer is known by the number and variety of his tools. The man who has many useful implements emphasizes brain above brawn. He is tactful and resourceful. He means to be master of the situation. He is to accomplish the given result with the least expenditure of mere physical energy. He will do his work better and more expeditiously than the man who depends on his hands and his muscles. Good tools educate the man. Their use cultivates ingenuity. They teach him to think.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598020308907428554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989521426127740220.post-35390131109314370072012-12-28T11:54:00.001-05:002012-12-28T11:59:20.469-05:00L.H. Bailey appears in, The Native Landscape Reader<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYZkJ4S0eIeYIqtYfXcRpsDMX78Z9PPDKgOACjcggGUYNRB1XJ8YN6acMn601zkqMK39Z2EYmEsvdKr-OWZMbN8e0nTOb4rRo_yhDH-L_i0NBW42AR67fQmmh11a7QulIbsMamk_4LIIM/s1600/9781558498846_500X500.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYZkJ4S0eIeYIqtYfXcRpsDMX78Z9PPDKgOACjcggGUYNRB1XJ8YN6acMn601zkqMK39Z2EYmEsvdKr-OWZMbN8e0nTOb4rRo_yhDH-L_i0NBW42AR67fQmmh11a7QulIbsMamk_4LIIM/s320/9781558498846_500X500.jpg" width="229" /></a> When it comes to school allegiances, the green colored gridiron may always cast The University of Michigan and Michigan State University as the eternal warring opposites. When it comes to the cultivated patch of green, acrimony is passe as witnessed in U of M's Robert E. Grese's inclusion of MSU alum, Liberty Hyde Bailey in his volume, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1558498842/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=libhydbaimus-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1558498842">The Native Landscape Reader (Critical Perspectives in the History of Environmental Design)</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=libhydbaimus-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1558498842" style="border: currentColor !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
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<em> </em><span id="btAsinTitle"> </span>Robert E. Grese, professor of landscape architecture at the University of Michigan, describes Bailey as, "one of the seminal figures in American Horticulture, plant science, landscape gardening, and conservation in the twentieth century." This volume features selections from Bailey's, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00683N93I/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=libhydbaimus-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00683N93I">The Outlook to Nature</a> along with Grese's trove of luminaries culled from his research including Frederick Law Olmsted, Jens Jensen, Andrew Jackson Downing, Horace William Shaler Cleveland, and O.C. Simonds. <br />
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This gives us a good excuse to revisit a selection from Bailey's gem of a book. As Bailey explained, "The outlook to nature is the outlook to optimism, for nature is our governing condition." Enjoy!_______________<br />
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Every person desires these things in greater or lesser degree: this is indicated by the rapidly spreading suburban movement, by the vacationing in the country, and by the astonishing multiplication of books about <span class="gstxt_hlt">nature. </span>Yet there are comparatively very few persons who have any intimate contact with <span class="gstxt_hlt">nature, </span>or any concrete enjoyment from it, because they lack the information that enables them <span class="gstxt_hlt">to </span>understand the objects and phenomena.</div>
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Our eager civilization prematurely makes us mentally old. It may be true that the span of man's life is increasing, but at twenty we have the knowledge and the perplexities that our grandfathers had only at forty. Our children may now be older when they are graduated<span class="gtxt_body">from school, but the high-school course of today is more complex than was the college course of fifty years ago. All this has a tendency <span class="gstxt_hlt">to </span>lessen the years of free and joyous youth.</span></div>
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Therefore, I preach the things that we ourselves did not make; for we are all idolaters, — the things of our hands we worship. I preach the near-at-hand, however plain and ordinary, — the cloud and the sunshine; the green pastures; the bird on its nest and the nest on its bough; the rough bark of trees; the frost on bare thin<span class="gtxt_body">twigs; the mouse skittering <span class="gstxt_hlt">to </span>its burrow; the insect seeking its crevice; the smell of the ground; the sweet wind; the silent stars; the leaf that clings <span class="gstxt_hlt">to </span>its twig or that falls when its work is done.</span></div>
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"The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces."</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598020308907428554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989521426127740220.post-79913886169355212502012-12-09T19:36:00.000-05:002014-09-05T15:19:37.474-04:00Winter<div style="text-align: left;">
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<i>Here is a little mediation from L.H. Bailey on the liberating aspects of winter from his collection of poetry, Wind and Weather:</i><br />
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Wide over the waste the white rifts go <br />
Travelling on with a ceaseless flow <br />
Out to the voids we never shall know. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Frog insect <span class="gstxthlt">and </span>snake lie fast lie tight <br />
Hidden <span class="gstxthlt">and </span>snug in pocketed deeps, <br />
But we are alive come green come white <br />
The year is ours while the 'neath-world sleeps,— <br /><span class="gtxtbody1">Ours with rabbit's track </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="gstxthlt">and </span><span class="gtxtbody1">rough trees snow-limbed </span><br /><span class="gtxtbody1">Fence-drift's clean curl </span></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="gstxthlt">and </span><span class="gtxtbody1">the seed-pod's sail </span><br /><span class="gtxtbody1">Stumps white-turbanned </span></span>
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With frigid bush <span class="gstxthlt">and </span>summer's dead stalk <br />
Where earth lies deep <span class="gstxthlt">and </span>ice-piles are thrust, <br />
The trackless ways are the ways we walk,— </span></div>
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On to the realms of bluster <span class="gstxthlt">and </span>blow <br />
Where ghosts of the years of long ago <br />
Shriek thro' the hills to caverns below. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Stript to the bone is the <span class="gstxthlt">wind-worn </span>year <br />
Cover <span class="gstxthlt">and </span>mask <span class="gstxthlt">and </span>ornament
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Clear as days to the sight of the seer <br />
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Past <span class="gstxthlt">and </span>outpast the timid alarms— <br />
This is our day; <span class="gstxthlt">and </span>over the breach <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598020308907428554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989521426127740220.post-13865204358850545482012-10-21T09:58:00.000-04:002012-10-23T08:03:26.497-04:00There Are No Parties In Science<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>As we enter a presidential election cycle, a common theme reemerging is the growing partisanship in the country. L.H. Bailey, in <b>Ground-Levels in Democracy (1916) </b>offers another view in regarding politics and the polarizing need to have one's opinion rule over substance and fact. <b> </b> </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> For a public officer we want a person who thinks as we do: this is what political parties mean. If we were scientific, we would want an officer because he were best qualified. Our method of government rests on this partisanship,—on my<span class="gtxt_body"> side and your side, the pros and cons, the ins and outs, the saints and sinners, the democrats and republicans. It is said that in the nature of things and in the quality of the human mind, the life of the race must be partisan. We are told that there is good and evil, a proposition, however, not capable of proof; that there is day and night, but the day and the night both are continuous and they merely pass over us where we stand; that there is up and down, but not one of us knows at this moment whether he is on his head or on his feet. The processes of nature are all continuous and we interpret the contrasts as if they were essential differences in substance.</span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I was reading a book on the war, and expressed my interest in it. My friend asked which side the author took. I replied that he took neither side. With astonishment he asked me how, then, the man could write a book on the war! To come to a public question merely with the desire to know and not to have an opinion in advance, is sufficiently unusual to excite comment. Verily, we are yet a long way from the open mind, the one that does not immediately take sides. The scientist makes inquiries long before he has an opinion. We may be open-minded with equanimity and with much self-admiration on abstract questions that are far off, but when they become concrete we are partisan. It is difficult to see facts in the face of self-interest, but<span class="gtxt_body"> this is nevertheless the conquest of the science-spirit.</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598020308907428554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989521426127740220.post-34054399767518438122012-09-15T12:23:00.001-04:002012-09-15T12:31:25.461-04:00Closing Image: Through the Lens of L.H. Bailey<table align="left" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="height: 397px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; width: 551px;"><tbody>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598020308907428554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989521426127740220.post-22946454920615303542012-09-01T13:46:00.003-04:002012-09-01T13:46:48.982-04:00Not All the People Should Live on Salary<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> The farmer is about the only man left who lives directly on his own efforts, without the aid of salary, speculation, or the non-intrinsic profits that accrue from trade. There is a tendency to organize agriculture, and thereby to develop salaries in it; this tendency is no doubt to be commended, yet I look with some apprehension to the effect that it may have on independent effort and opinion. <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=7xkZAAAAYAAJ&dq=liberty%20hyde%20bailey%20fall&pg=PA93#v=onepage&q=liberty%20hyde%20bailey%20fall&f=false" target="_blank">Outlook to Nature</a>, - L.H. Bailey</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Many times in warm countries I have been told that the climate has transcendent merit because there is no <span class="gstxt_hlt">winter. </span>But to me this lack is its disadvantage. There are things to see, things to do, things to think about in the <span class="gstxt_hlt">winter </span>as in the spring. There is interest in the <span class="gstxt_hlt">winter </span>wayside, in the hibernating insects, in the few hardy birds, and the deserted nests, in the fretwork of the weeds against the snow, in the strong outlines of the trees, in the snow-shapes, in the cold deep sky. To many persons these strong alternations of the seasons emphasize<span class="gtxt_body">and punctuate the life. They are the mountains and the valleys. The <span class="gstxt_hlt">winter </span>is a part of the naturalist's year. <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=dG1MAAAAIAAJ&dq=L.H.%20Bailey%20winter&pg=PA166#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank">-L.H. Bailey, The Nature Study Idea</a></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598020308907428554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989521426127740220.post-8670118193731196552012-08-12T11:17:00.002-04:002012-08-12T11:17:28.807-04:00L.H. Bailey Featured in New "Ink Trails" Book<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Authors Dave and Jack Dempsey know well their state of Michigan and its richness in culture. Their new book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1611860601/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1611860601&linkCode=as2&tag=libhydbaimus-20">Ink Trails: Michigan's Famous and Forgotten Authors</a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=libhydbaimus-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1611860601" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> —the first of its kind— explores the secrets, legends, and myths surrounding some of Michigan’s literary luminaries including South Haven’s own Liberty Hyde Bailey. </i></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> You can purchase the book through our blog link above and also <b>meet co-author/historian Jack Dempsey on Saturday, September 8th, from 3-5 at <a href="http://www.lakemichigancollege.edu/SH" target="_blank">Lake Michigan College, South Haven Campus</a></b>.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Here is an excerpt.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> "The fruit orchards blanketing the Southwest Michigan hills all the way to the vineyards on the Old Mission Peninsula might be described as Bailey Country. Lake-moderated breezes nurture trees and shrubs bursting with produce. And if production itself were not enough, the landscape all up and down the West Michigan shore surely would delight Bailey today, with field upon sun-embraced field reaching as far as the eye can see.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> He never lost his fascination with the natural world—discovering new plants, or determining how to keep farmers more in tune with the land they should love. Bailey had no such lack, having grown up in the embrace of the family farm. This experience deeply influenced him throughout his long life, for he would vouch that his writings “all came out of South Haven. My roots are here and my experiences here must enter into my consciousness. All life comes out of childhood.” Growing from the fertile West Michigan soil, the life it yielded would enrich many a printed page." </span></div>
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<i>After his retirement from Cornell University in 1914, Liberty Hyde Bailey inaugurated a career as a plant explorer with the sole objective of increasing knowledge of the world’s plants. In 1929, Bailey undertook an exploration with his daughter Ethel to the Los Llanos (the plains) of the Orinoco River. Featured here are personal photos and a journal segment of this trip.</i><br />
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We had been a long journey and were now on the llanos of the middle Orinoco. We had seen ranges of mountains and alluring summits, rain-forests choked with tropical verdure and punctuated with gaudy-colored birds, sights strange and fascinating, and had tramped in many places where the vegetation was striking and abundant for we are botanical collectors. Today we were far away on our burros and had dismounted in the shade near a stream that was cool and refreshing in this torrid climate. It was a tributary of the mighty Orinoco River, and in comparison was tame and unexciting. We found good things along the shore. Then we spied a tiny islet in the stream, a bit of flat land that had been surrounded by high water. It had no attractive vegetation as we saw it from the shore, merely a green cover of grass-like things. When I reached the islet I found it was three feet wide and ten feet long. Under my feet I saw strange leaves and stems. I got on my knees and began to gather diminutive things that I had not found before. Some of them were only a inch or two high. Once apparently the area has been grazed, perhaps before the high water came. The plants had adapted themselves to this circumstance by blooming and seeding at these puny dimensions, and this was the first of the wonders. About a dozen distinct kinds of plants I overtook on that minikin world, and of one of them I discovered but a single specimen and the only one of its kind I found in Venezuela. It is a pigmy thing, as thin as a thread and less than four inches high, so frail that you could not measure its worth in gold. I suppose the reason why I found it here and not elsewhere was because my eyes were close to the ground and I was intent on every tiny object. Often indeed we look to far away for our treasures and stand too much aloof from what in our superiority we call the trivial things. Yet far away in that lonely bit in South America where probably no collector ever went before or will ever go again that little plant lived its own life successfully, made its seeds and trusted them to the kindly earth, and was blessed by sun and night and rain. That islet will always be a green place in my memory for the things I found and the emotions I felt: it is my Treasure Island. <b><i>-L.H. Bailey to Russel Lord, December 16, 1929</i></b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598020308907428554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989521426127740220.post-31248489592705650512012-07-26T10:07:00.001-04:002012-07-26T11:28:08.717-04:00What is Horticulture?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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</a><em>Liberty Hyde Bailey has been dubbed the, "American Father of Modern Horticulture" but most people would be hard pressed to give a definition of horticulture or feel that they should know, feeling the tinge of embarrassment. However, we don't need to be embarrassed. Bailey himself wrested with it. Let's see what Bailey thought of the word:</em></div>
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Etymologically, <span class="gstxt_hlt">horticulture </span>means the cultivation <span class="gstxt_hlt">of </span>a garden (<em>hortus</em>, garden, <em>cultura</em>, cultivation); and as all intelligent cultivation rests upon many scientific principles, both the art and science <span class="gstxt_hlt">of </span>garden cultivation should be included in the definition. The scope <span class="gstxt_hlt">of </span>the definition turns upon the meaning <span class="gstxt_hlt">of </span>the word garden. This word comes directly from the Anglo-Saxon <em>gyrdan</em>, to enclose, and is allied to the verb <em>to gird;</em> and indirectly it is allied to the Latin <em>hortus</em>, which originally related to an enclosure<span class="gstxt_hlt">. - <strong><em>L.H. Bailey, </em></strong><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=_1smAQAAMAAJ&dq=annals%20of%20horticulture%201891&pg=PA126#v=onepage&q=annals%20of%20horticulture%201891&f=false" target="_blank"><strong><em>Annals of Horticulture 1891</em></strong></a></span><br />
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I suppose that we will always dispute as to what <span class="gstxt_hlt">horticulture </span>comprises. I have tried several times to define it...The older I grow, the less I care to define anything. Definitions are at best only formal attempts to express what we already know by experience; and experience is always our guide. By general consent, various arts are loosely assembled under the one word <span class="gstxt_hlt">horticulture. </span>How long this one word will be held to cover the entire group, no one can tell, nor is it much worth while to speculate or prophesy. I have come to feel that prophesying is poor business for ordinary folk: if we do our work well and with hopeful enthusiasm, the prophesy will come as the flower comes out <span class="gstxt_hlt">of </span>the bud. Therefore, I am well content to let <span class="gstxt_hlt">horticulture </span>be merely <span class="gstxt_hlt">horticulture, and to be happy that it has fallen to my lot to dally and to work in such a delightful field. <strong><em>-L.H. Bailey, </em></strong><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Ec9MAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA7&ots=jcxb904qRU&dq=L.H.%20bailey%20definition%20of%20horticulture&pg=PA7#v=onepage&q=L.H.%20bailey%20definition%20of%20horticulture&f=false" target="_blank"><strong><em>Recent Progress in American <span class="gstxt_hlt">Horticulture</span></em></strong></a><strong><em>, 1908</em></strong></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598020308907428554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989521426127740220.post-69410902971521853372012-07-22T10:43:00.003-04:002012-07-22T10:53:52.992-04:00"Through the Lens of L.H. Bailey" - Exhibit Extension<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<i>Nearly 200 glass plate images, taken by Liberty Hyde Bailey at the turn of the 20th century, have been digitally scanned and are now preserved at the <a href="http://www.libertyhdyebailey.org/" target="_blank">Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum, South Haven</a>, Michigan. It is these images that comprise the museum's first exhibit, "Through the Lens of L.H. Bailey." For today's snapshot we offer a very deserving image that did not make it into the exhibit. More to come!</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> By <span class="gstxthlt">nature, </span>I mean the natural out-of
doors,—the snow and the rain, the sky, the plants, the animals, the running
brooks,and every landscape that is easy of access and undefiled. Every person desires these things in greater or lesser degree: this is indicated by the rapidly spreading suburban movement, by the vacationing in the country, and by the astonishing
multiplication of books about nature. Yet there are comparatively very few who
have any intimate contact with nature, or any concrete enjoyment from it,
because they lack information that enables them to understand the objects and
phenomena.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> The currents of
civilization tend always to take us out of our environment rather than to fit
us into it. We must recast our habits of thought so as to set our faces
nature-ward. This is far more important than any effort at mere simplicity or
toward lopping off the redundancies: it is fundamental direction and point of
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> The
outlook to nature is the outlook to what is real, and hearty, and spontaneous. -<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=TzgZAAAAYAAJ&ots=5YEG28quOh&dq=L.H.%20bailey%20outlook%20to%20nature&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q=L.H.%20bailey%20outlook%20to%20nature&f=false" target="_blank">L.H. Bailey, Outlook to Nature</a></span></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598020308907428554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1989521426127740220.post-5401172153674211322012-07-15T10:26:00.001-04:002012-07-15T11:03:38.961-04:00Snapshot from the Exhibit, "Through the Lens of L.H. Bailey: Plants, Places & People"<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP1wii_hB9iwX8pnE5OGH33G_tSUez89xD93w1ZKvfrSWgssrH1M8Oj18GS2vXuOxymokSuyElPzdFsQ8sT_eSp3ITDtSop7WVo4WJZ6JNDxbOWlJdAmQPYaenbv0NBsaqIIr27qMSPCg/s1600/Bailiwick.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP1wii_hB9iwX8pnE5OGH33G_tSUez89xD93w1ZKvfrSWgssrH1M8Oj18GS2vXuOxymokSuyElPzdFsQ8sT_eSp3ITDtSop7WVo4WJZ6JNDxbOWlJdAmQPYaenbv0NBsaqIIr27qMSPCg/s400/Bailiwick.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Bailiwick ca. 1900s.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>The Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum's exhibit, <a href="http://www.libertyhydebailey.org/" target="_blank">"Through the Lens of L.H. Bailey,"</a> continues to turn heads. The show runs through September 15th. For the next months, we will feature a rare image digtially restored from Bailey's glass plate negatives. Enjoy!</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The income from his varied and popular horticultural
books enabled Liberty Hyde Bailey to establish a modest country place on the
west shore of Cayuga Lake about six miles north of Ithaca, New York. Using
stones from the nearby fields, Bailey built a comfortable stone cottage. He
called the retreat Bailiwick. For his family it was a wonderful summer home;
for Bailey it provided an opportunity to study nature.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During the
summer and early fall, Bailiwick became the scene of many outings for faculty
and students in Cornell’s Horticultural Department. Later, Bailey donated
Bailiwick to the local Girl Scouts chapter, which converted the place into a
center for nature study and summer day camp which is still in use.<o:p></o:p></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09598020308907428554noreply@blogger.com0