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Liberty Hyde Bailey

Liberty Hyde Bailey

American botanist

John Lindley, engraving, 1865, after a photograph

John Lindley

British botanist

Francisco de Paula Marín

Spanish horticulturalist

Thomas Andrew Knight

British horticulturalist

André Parmentier

American horticulturalist

Michurin, Ivan Vladimirovich

Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin

Russian horticulturalist