Fairchild, David Grandison (1869-1954), an American botanist and explorer, brought over 20,000 species of plants to the United States. He helped found the Section of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction in the U.S. Department of Agriculture and directed that section from 1906 to 1928. In 1938, he established the Fairchild Tropical Garden near Miami, Florida. It became one of the world's most extensive botanical gardens. Fairchild wrote such books as Garden Islands of the Great East (1945) and The World Grows Round My Door (1947).