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About Lawrence Ogilvie
- Lawrence Ogilvie (5 July 1898 – 16 April 1980) was a Scottish plant pathologist. Ogilvie was a UK expert on the diseases of commercially grown vegetables and wheat from the 1930s to the 1960s. In the 1920s — when agriculture, rather than tourism, was Bermuda's major industry — he identified the virus that had devastated for 30 years the island's lily-bulb crop.
- He re-established the vital export trade to the USA and increased it to seven-fold the volume of ten years earlier.In total he wrote over 130 articles about plant diseases in journals of learned societies.
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