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A. A. (Arthur Alger) Crozier
1856–1899
Best known for practical books on cauliflower growing and botanical language, this late-19th-century American horticulturist wrote with the clear, useful style of someone deeply involved in the work itself.
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The Cauliflower
by A. A. (Arthur Alger) Crozier
About the author
Arthur Alger Crozier was an American horticulturist, botanist, and agricultural writer born in 1856 and died in 1899. Records from Michigan State University note that he graduated from Michigan Agricultural College in 1879, earned an M.S. from the University of Michigan in 1885, and worked with the Michigan Agricultural College Experiment Station before later serving as a horticulturist and seedsman.
His published work shows a strong interest in practical plant science. Crozier wrote The Cauliflower and A Dictionary of Botanical Terms, and he also contributed shorter botanical and agricultural writings that circulated through scientific and farming communities.
Although he is not widely known today, surviving library records and archival collections suggest he had a meaningful place in the development of American horticulture in the late 1800s, especially in linking careful botanical knowledge with everyday cultivation.