Throughout a career that spanned more than 50 years, he developed some 800 strains and varieties of plants. Many were flowers. His work led him to produce a catalog that offered his new, hybridized plants, then he wrote about a wide range of topics including child rearing, scientific methods, and atheism.
A b/w photo of botanist Luther Burbank Photo credit and source: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
“Listen patiently, quietly and reverently to the lessons, one by one, which Mother Nature has to teach, shedding light on that which was before a mystery, so that all who will, may see and know.”
-American horticulturist Luther Burbank, born on this day in 1849
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