Luther Burbank Botanist
- Gender: Male
- Citizenship: United States
- Born: Mar 7, 1849
- Died: Apr 11, 1926
Luther Burbank was an American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in agricultural science. He developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career. Burbank's varied creations included fruits, flowers, grains, grasses, and vegetables. He developed a spineless cactus and the plumcot.
Burbank's most successful strains and varieties include the Shasta daisy, the fire poppy, the 'July Elberta' peach, the 'Santa Rosa' plum, the 'Flaming Gold' nectarine, the 'Wickson' plum, the freestone peach, and the white blackberry. A natural genetic variant of the Burbank potato with russet-colored skin later became known as the Russet Burbank potato. This large, brown-skinned, white-fleshed potato has become the world's predominant potato in food processing.
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
gardening & knowledge
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
food & gardening
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
gardening
We must return to nature and nature's god.
environmental, God & nature
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
knowledge & science
If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
environmental