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THIS book is the autobiography of David Fairchild, written with the assistance of Elizabeth and Alfred Kay. It consists of an account of his life and of his varied experiences during the course of his journeyings as a plant explorer. In early manhood, Fairchild's chief interests were in the direction of plant pathology, and it was not until 1895, when he met his friend and benefactor, Barbour Lathrop, that he began to concentrate on the problems of plant introduction. For the next twenty years, he travelled continuously all over the world collecting plants, particularly those of economic importance, and dispatching them to his native country. He finally became head of the Division of Foreign Plant Exploration and Introduction of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and retired in 1935.
The World was my Garden:
Travels of a Plant Explorer. By David Fairchild., assisted by Elizabeth and Alfred Kay. Pp. xiv+494+129 plates. (New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938.) 18s. net.
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The World was my Garden. Nature 142, 1138 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/1421138a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1421138a0