Garden of Invention Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants

Name: Garden of Invention Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants
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ISBN: 9781594202094

ISBN-10: 1594202095

ISBN-13: 9781594202094

Edition: 2009

Authors: Jane S. Smith, Jane Smith

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A wide-ranging and delightful narrative history of the celebrated plant breeder Luther Burbank and the business of farm and garden in early twentieth-century America A century ago, Luther Burbank was the most famous gardener on the planet. His name was inseparable from a cornucopia of new and improved plants—fruits, nuts, vegetables, and flowers—for both home gardens and commercial farms and orchards. At a time when the science of genetics was in its infancy and agriculture was often a perilous combination of guess work and luck, many people wanted a piece of the man they called the Wizard of Santa Rosa. As the United States moved from a nation of farms to a nation of city dwellers, the…

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List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 4/16/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Jane S. Smith, PhD,is the award-winning author of several books, includingPatenting the Sun: Polio and the SalkVaccine, which received theLos Angeles TimesBook Prize for Science and Technology and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; and, most recently,The Garden of Invention,winner of the Caroline Bancroft Prize in Western History. She lives in Chicago.