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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
Michurin, Ivan Vladimirovich
Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin
Russian horticulturalist
André Parmentier
American horticulturalist