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David Fairchild

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David Grandison Fairchild was an American botanist and plant explorer. Fairchild was responsible for the introduction of more than 200,000 exotic plants and varieties of established crops into the United States, including soybeans, pistachios, mangos, nectarines, dates, bamboos, and flowering cherries. Certain varieties of wheat, cotton, and rice became especially economically important.

Books

United States. Department of Agriculture, David Fairchild
Spanish Almonds and Their Introduction Into America
Spanish Almonds and Their Introduction Into America
United States. Department of Agriculture, David Fairchild
Book of Monsters
Book of Monsters
David Fairchild, Marian Fairchild
Effects of Varying Certain Cooking Conditions in Producing Soda Pulp from Aspen
Effects of Varying Certain Cooking Conditions in Producing Soda Pulp from Aspen
John Hamilton, David Fairchild, John Thomas Bowen, Robert Macfarlane Chapin, Henry Earl Surface, William Allen Orton, Charles Walter Bacon, Wightman Wells Garner, Irving E. Melhus, George Alfred Runner, Norman De Witt Betts, Charles Léon Foubert
Persian Gulf Dates and Their Introduction Into America
Persian Gulf Dates and Their Introduction Into America
David Fairchild
The World Was My Garden: Travels of a Plant Explorer
The World Was My Garden: Travels of a Plant Explorer
David Fairchild
Book of Monsters
Book of Monsters
David Fairchild, Marian Hubbard (Bell) Fairchild
Book of Monsters
Book of Monsters
David Fairchild
Check List of the Forest Trees of the United States
Check List of the Forest Trees of the United States
Filibert Roth, David Fairchild, George Bishop Sudworth, Charles Albert Keffer, Afroim K. Mlodziansky, John Millerd Simpson
Spanish Almonds and Their Introduction Into America
Spanish Almonds and Their Introduction Into America
David Fairchild

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