Michael Schuck Bebb (December 23, 1833 – December 5, 1895) was an amateur systematic botanist in the nineteenth century with a reputation as the leading salicologist in both America and Europe. His extensive work on the genus Salix led to several plants being named in his honour.
Michael Schuck Bebb was born on December 23 1833 in Butler County, Ohio, one of five children to William Bebb and Sarah Schuck. His formative years were spent on the fam...
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Michael Schuck Bebb (December 23, 1833 – December 5, 1895) was an amateur systematic botanist in the nineteenth century with a reputation as the leading salicologist in both America and Europe. His extensive work on the genus Salix led to several plants being named in his honour.
Michael Schuck Bebb was born on December 23 1833 in Butler County, Ohio, one of five children to William Bebb and Sarah Schuck. His formative years were spent on the family farm in Hamilton, Ohio, where his interest in horticultural subjects took root amidst “the pleasure grounds, vegetable and fruit gardens” and “well stocked greenhouse”. Through his uncle, Evan Bebb, the young Bebb received a complete set of the Natural History Reports of the State of New York and Emerson’s Trees and Shrubs of Massachusetts. These books opened up the hitherto unknown world of botany to the sixteen year old, who could now trace the genera and species of given plants and learn from their relationship. Applying this new found...
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