A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

He cited Mendel's 1865 and 1869 papers in the bibliography that accompanied his 1892 paper "Cross Breeding and Hybridizing. Gentes Herb. and Sarah Harrison Bailey Bailey entered the Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) in 1878 and graduated in 1882.