Pliny the Elder (23 AD – 79 AD), Roman naturalist: wrote extensively about horticulture at that time.
Pedanius Dioscorides (40—90 AD), Greek: the author of De Materia Medica - an encyclopedia about herbal medicine that was widely read for more than 1,500 years.
John Gerard (1545 – 1612), English herbalist: notable for his herbal garden and botany writing - The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes (1597).
Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954), American: cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science.
Andrew Jackson Downing (1815 – 1852), American landscape designer: served as the editor of The Horticulturist magazine (1846–52).
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822 – 1903), American: considered by many to be the father of American landscape architecture.
Luther Burbank (1849 – 1926), American: pioneer in agricultural science - developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants.
William Hooker (1785 – 1865), English: was the first Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
George Bentham (1800 – 1884), English: The collections found in the Kew Herbarium today are based on the collections of George Bentham and William Hooker.
Joseph Hooker (1817 – 1911), British: a founder of geographical botany; was director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, for twenty years.
John Lindley (1799 – 1865), English: father of orchidology.
George Washington Carver (1864 – 1943), American: Development of Peanut Crops and Products.
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