The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (909 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0143116894 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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Deserves a spot in any general lending library GARDEN OF INVENTION: LUTHER BURBANK AND THE BUSINESS OF BREEDING PLANTS offers an excellent history of the plant breeder and farm and garden efforts in early 20th century America. A century ago Burbank was the most famous gardener on the planet. This survey of his co. "I'm pretty sure it's all here" according to Amazon Customer. If you want to know about Luthar Burbank, I'm pretty sure it's all here. In fact, if there is a downside, it's probably that you might not want to know -this- much about him. I was very interested in his gardening techniques, and while this was in the book, it was a . "A Gem for You Plant Nuts!!" according to Frank Beckendorf. No one can argue that Luther Burbank did more for plants, farming and gardening than anyone else. His work has helped to feed thousands.American ingenuity is an obvious standout in this selection where his genius shines and his ideas provide a portrait of the fasteni
Smith writes about the intersection of nature, science, and social change. in English from Yale University and has taught at Northwestern University on topics ranging from twentieth-century fiction to the history of public health. Jane S. Her history of the first polio vaccine, Patenting the Sun: Polio and the Salk Vaccine, was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology. . She received her Ph.D. She lives in Chicago, where she
Amazingly, Burbank discovered independently the Mendelian principles that form the basis of genetics, and developed more than 800 varieties of fruits, nuts, vegetables and flowers. All rights reserved. Smith covers Burbank's rural New England childhood; the influence of Darwin on his horticultural ideas; his move to Santa Rosa, Calif.; and the establishment of his experimental gardens and nurseries. . From Publishers Weekly Though as famous in his day as Thomas Edison, agricultural pioneer Luther Burbank (1849–1926) is little remembered; in this straightforward, engaging biography, author and historian Smith
A fascinating portrait of an American original, The Garden of Invention is also a colorful and engrossing tale of the intersection of gardening, science and business in the years between the Civil War and the Great Depression.. The wide-ranging and delightful history of celebrated plant breeder Luther Burbank and the business of farm and garden in early twentieth- century America At no other time in history has there been more curiosity or concern about the food we eat-and genetically modified foods, in particular, have become both pervasive and suspect. In his experimental grounds in Santa Rosa, California, Burbank bred and cross-bred edible and ornamental plants-for both home gardens and commercial farms-until they were bigger, hardier, more beautiful, and more productive than ever before. A century ago, however, Luther Burbank's blight-resistant potatoes, white blackberries, and plumcots-a plum-apricot hybrid-were celebrated as triumphs in the best tradition of American ingenuity an