Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick

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birth_date = 1870
birth_place = Independence, Iowa
death_date = 1951
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fields = Pomology
workplaces = Michigan Agricultural College
Oregon Agricultural College
Utah Agricultural College
NYS Agricultural Experiment Station
alma_mater = Michigan Agricultural College
Hobart College
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Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick (1870–1951) was an American botanistcite web
url = http://www.hcs.ohio-state.edu/hort/history/131.html
title = Hedrick, Ulysses Prentiss 1870-1951
accessdate = 2008-08-12
year = 2002
work = History of Horticulture
publisher = Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University ] and horticulturist [cite book
last = Brandow Samuels
first = Gayle
title = Enduring Roots: Encounters with Trees, History, and the American Landscape
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=WovVBjvQG1wC&pg=PA53&dq=%22Ulysses+Hedrick%22&sig=ACfU3U0tuo9TEVaJW47T2lG_pvpzvL7tGw
accessdate = 2008-08-13
year = 2005
publisher = Rutgers University Press
location = New Brunswick, New Jersey
isbn = 978-0-8135-3539-5
pages = 53 ] who specialized in spermatophytes. [cite web
url = http://asaweb.huh.harvard.edu:8080/databases/botanists?id=102716
title = HUH - Databases - Botanist Search Results
accessdate = 2008-08-12
date = 2008-04-07
work = Index of Botanists
publisher = Harvard University Herbaria ] His main interest was cultivated fruit trees and he published a number of volumes dealing with such fruits as cherries, grapes, plums, and peaches. [ [http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/Hedrick,%20Ulysses%20Prentiss] Fruits for the Home Garden] [ [http://www.co.st-lawrence.ny.us/slcpo/append1a.html] Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick, "A History of Agriculture in the State of New York" (J.B. Lyon Co: Albany, NY, 1933) p.34.] [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=Yu2oPyz_cusC&pg=PA169&lpg=PA169&dq=Ulysses+Prentiss+Hedrick&source=web&ots=On6qbSHug1&sig=t5u5v5V_LqtjHsaVqvpQR6Q2loI&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result#PPA164,M1] Hard at Play: Leisure in America] [ [http://www.lyonsltd.com/Artists/Ulysses_P_Hedrick/Biography] Biography of Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick]

Biography

Hedrick was born in 1870 in Independence, Iowa. He attended Michigan Agricultural College (MAC), receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in 1893 and a Master of Science degree in 1895. He worked as Assistant Horticulturist at MAC from 1893 to 1895, while studying for his M.S.

From 1895 to 1905, Hedrick taught botany and horticulture at Oregon Agricultural College (1895–1897), Utah Agricultural College (1897–1899), and Michigan Agricultural College (1899–1905). He became a horticulturist at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York in 1905. While in Geneva, Hedrick completed a Doctor of Science degree at Hobart College in 1913. He continued to work at the Station, which he directed from 1928 onwards, until 1937, when he retired.

Hedrick was a Fellow of the New York State Historical Association and a member of the American Society for Horticultural Science and American Pomological Society.

During his lifetime, he authored or co-authored more than a dozen publications, which are "still frequently consulted", on the subjects of pomology and horticulture. His monographs on fruits, including publications such as "The Pears of New York" (1922), "have become classic references on the fruit cultivars of the period". [cite web
url = http://www.ars-grin.gov/ars/PacWest/Corvallis/ncgr/pony.html
title = The Pears of New York by Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick
accessdate = 2008-08-08
last = Postman
first = Joseph D.
date = December 2000
work = National Genetic Resources Program – Corvallis, Oregon
publisher = Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture ]

Hedrick died in 1951.

Publications

* "Grapes of New York" (1908)
* "Plums of New York" (1910)
* "Cherries of New York" (1913)
* "Peaches of New York" (1917)
* "Manual of American Grape Growing" (1919)
* "Sturtevant's Notes on Edible Plants" (1919)
* "Cyclopedia of Hardy Fruits" (1921)
* "The Pears of New York" (1922)
* "Systematic Pomology" (1925)
* "Small Fruit of New York" (1925)
* "The Vegetables of New York" (1929)
* "History of Agriculture in the State of New York" (1933)
* "Fruits for the Home Garden" (1944)
* "Grapes and Wines from Home Vineyards" (1945)
* "A History of Horticulture in America" (1950)

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