Editing Liberty Hyde Bailey (section)

==Rediscovery of Gregor Mendel's work==
Bailey was one of the first to recognize the overall importance of [[Gregor Mendel]]'s work. He cited Mendel's 1865 and 1869 papers in the bibliography that accompanied his 1892 paper, "Cross Breeding and Hybridizing". Mendel is mentioned again in the 1895 edition of Bailey's "Plant Breeding".<ref>"The Role of Liberty Hyde Bailey and [[Hugo de Vries]] in the Rediscovery of Mendelism," Conway Zirkle, ''Journal of the History of Biology,'' Volume 1, Number 2 (Autumn, 1968), pages 205-218. Here is an excerpt: "De Vries as we have noted, gave three different accounts, and this leads us to Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858–1954). In a letter to Bailey, de Vries stated that he was led to Mendel's work by an item in a bibliography that Bailey had published in 1892. Bailey inserted an excerpt from this letter in a footnote in the later editions of his book, ''Plant Breeding,'' a very successful book that went through several editions. De Vries wrote (from the Fourth Edition, 1906, page 155): Many years ago you had the kindness to send me your article on Cross Breeding and Hybridization of 1892; and I hope it will interest you to know that it was by means of your bibliography therein that I learned some years afterwards of the existence of Mendel's papers, which now are coming to so high credit. Without your aid I fear I should not have found them at all. Some years later (1924), de Vries gave another and different account in a letter he wrote to Roberts....."</ref><ref>Conway Zirkle: [https://doi.org/10.1007%2FBF00351920 "The role of Liberty Hyde Bailey and Hugo de Vries in the rediscovery of  Mendelism,"] ''The Journal of the History of Biology,'' Vol. 1, No. 2 / September, 1968.</ref><ref>"L.H. Bailey's citations to Gregor Mendel" in: Michael H. MacRoberts, ''The Journal of Heredity'' 1984:75(6):500-501. Here's part of the abstract: "L. H. Bailey cited Mendel's 1865 and 1869 papers in the bibliography that accompanied his 1892 paper, Cross-Breeding and Hybridizing, and Mendel is mentioned once in the 1895 edition of Bailey's ''Plant-Breeding.'' Bailey also saw a reference to Mendel's 1865 paper in Jackson's ''Guide to the Literature of Botany.'' Bailey's 1895 mention of Mendel occurs in a passage he translated from Focke's ''Die Pflanzen-Mischlinge.''"</ref>