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U. P. Hedrick
1870–1951
Best known for documenting America's fruit varieties, this botanist and horticulturist turned careful fieldwork into books that growers and historians still value. His writing brings together science, farming, and the long story of cultivated plants in the United States.
6 Audiobooks
Manual of American grape-growing
by U. P. Hedrick
The grapes of New York
by U. P. Hedrick
The pears of New York
by U. P. Hedrick
The peaches of New York
by U. P. Hedrick
The cherries of New York
by U. P. Hedrick
The plums of New York
by U. P. Hedrick
About the author
Born in Iowa in 1870, Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick became an American botanist and horticulturist whose work centered on cultivated fruit trees. He studied at Iowa State College and later earned advanced degrees from Michigan Agricultural College and Cornell, building a career that joined academic research with practical agriculture.
Hedrick spent much of his professional life with the New York Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, where he worked as a pomologist and helped document major fruit groups in detail. He is especially remembered for substantial books on grapes, plums, cherries, peaches, and other fruits of New York, as well as for A History of Horticulture in America to 1860.
He died in 1951 after a long career devoted to plants, fruit growing, and agricultural history. Today he is remembered not only as a scientist, but also as a patient recorder of the varieties, traditions, and regional knowledge that shaped American horticulture.