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Fairchild, David Grandison (1869–1954)| US botanist and agricultural explorer. He travelled all over the world and introduced more than 20,000 species of plants into the USA, including the soybean, the nectarine, and bamboos. He established the Fairchild Tropical Garden near Miami, Florida. |
| He was born in Lansing, Michigan and studied in Italy and Germany. The US Department of Agriculture and the Smithsonian Institution sponsored most of his travels and he described his tropical gardens in The World Grows Round My Door (1947). |
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