A delightful narrative history of the celebrated plant-breeder Luther Burbank in early 20th-century America, The Garden of Invention is a colorful and engrossing examination of gardening, science, and Business in the years between the Civil War and the Great Depression.
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..
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 and perseverance.
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.
A delightful narrative history of the celebrated plant-breeder Luther Burbank in early 20th-century America, The Garden of Invention is a colorful and engrossing examination of gardening, science, and Business in the years between the Civil War and the Great Depression
