THE GARDEN OF INVENTION: LUTHER BURBANK & THE BUSINESS OF BREEDING PLANTS EYES and merchants

and merchants

and a celebration of the wild

Nancy Singleton Hachisu

with archival photos and incredible facts throughout

THE GARDEN OF INVENTION: LUTHER BURBANK & THE BUSINESS OF BREEDING PLANTS EYES and merchantsThe 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 century ago, however, Luther Burbank's blight resistant potatoes, white blackberries, and plumcots a plum apricot hybrid