Florence Hedges
Florence Hedges was a pioneering American plant pathologist and botanist with the United States Department of Agricultures Bureau of Plant Industry.
Hedges was born in Lansing, Michigan. She graduated from University of Michigan in 1901. Much of her work involved investigations into bacteriainduced plant disease. Charlotte Elliot, Hellie A. Brown, Edith Cash, Mary Katharine Bryan, Anna Jenkins, and Lucia McCulloch, Pearle Smith, and Angie Beckwith were among the people she worked with while a researcher at the USDA.
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