books) to Cornell University, specifying that the complex be called the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. The university trustees constituted the hortorium a department of the university, with Bailey as its unsalaried director, daughter Ethel as curator, and Dr. R. T. Clausen as a research taxonomist. Bailey coined the name hortorium to refer to a place for the scientific study of cultivated plants. His objective was to bring order to the nomenclature of agricultural and horticultural plants. This involved growing novelties as soon as they were introduced into the trade and adding specimens to the herbarium as well. Bailey regularly grew between 2 and 800 such a year. One example of his procedure is found in his first paper in Gentes Herbarum, a journal initiated and supported financially solely by him. In this paper, Plantae Chinenses (1920), he described twenty new species in thirteen genera and fifteen new varieties and forms, some wild, some cultivated. This orderly treatment of the names of cultivated plants was regarded by Bailey as perhaps his most significant contribution to plant sciences. Bailey continued as director of the hortorium until 1951, when George H. M. Lawrence took over and saw the move of the hortorium from Bailey's home to the then newly built Agricultural College Library, where it now resides as a department of the Division of Biological Sciences supported by the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Its present faculty and staff number eighteen (1990), exclusive of graduate students, postdoctoral persons, and visitors.

Bailey was recognized throughout his career by the world scientific community, as his extensive list of honors shows. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1917, but the year 1926 can be considered the pinnacle of his recognition. Already president or honorary fellow of many horticultural organizations and cofounder of others,