Luther Burbank biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Luther Burbank

Author Name:

Luther Burbank

Born As:

Luther Burbank

Other Names:

Luther Burbank

Born:

7 Mar 1849

Died:

11 Apr 1926




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Horticulturist and pioneer in agricultural science                          
Selected Works: 

New Creations in Fruits and Flowers - 1893
The Training of the Human Plant - 1907
How Plants Are Trained to Work for Man - 1921
Harvest of the Years - with Wilbur Hall, 1927
Partner of Nature - 1939
Luther Burbank: His Methods and Discoveries and Their Practical Application - 12-volume                           
First wife, Helen Coleman in 1890 divorced in 1896
Second wife, Elizabeth Waters in 1916. No children.                          
A natural sport, genetic variant of the Burbank potato with reddish-brown skin later became known as the Russet Burbank potato. This large, brown-skinned, white-fleshed potato has become the world's predominant processing potato.

Burbank's creations included:

Shasta daisy 
Fire poppy
July Elberta peach
Santa Rosa plum
Flaming Gold nectarine 
Wickson plum, the Freestone peach
Burbank potato
White blackberry. 


Fruits
113 plums and prunes
35 fruiting cacti
16 blackberries
13 raspberries
11 quinces
11 plumcots
Ten cherries
Ten strawberries
Ten apples
Eight peaches
Six chestnuts
Five nectarines
Four grapes
Four pears
Three walnut
Two figs
One almond

Grains, grasses, forage -
Nine types

Vegetables -
26 types

Ornamentals -
91 types