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Apr. 17, 2009
Luther Burbank and the 'Garden of Invention'
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| As spring marches onward, you may be looking forward to getting your favorite fruits and vegetables started in your garden. In this segment, Ira talks with Jane S. Smith, author of a new biography of plant cultivation pioneer Luther Burbank. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Burbank led a revolution in agricultural science in the country, developing varieties of plants including the Freestone peach, the Wickson plum, the Shasta daisy, and the Russet Burbank potato, which has become a prime potato variety for commercial processing. |
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