Luther Burbank Quotes

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 Russet Burbank potato was in fact invented to help with the devastating situation in Ireland following the Great Famine. This particular potato variety was created by Burbank to help "revive the country's leading crop" as it is slightly late blight-resistant. Late blight is a disease that spread and destroyed potatoes all across Europe but caused extreme chaos in Ireland due to the high dependency on potatoes as a crop by the Irish. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. March 1849 – 11. April 1926   •   Other names Лютер Бербанк
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Famous Luther Burbank Quotes

“It is increasingly necessary to impress the fact that there are two distinct lines in the improvement of any race: the environment which brings individuals up to their best possibilities; the other, ten thousand times more important and effective, selection of the best individuals through a series of generations.”

Jordan's Commentary: These two lines correspond respectively to Galton's two elements in individual development, "Nurture" and "Nature."
How Plants are Trained to Work for Man (1921) Vol. 1 Plant Breeding

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Luther Burbank Quotes

“When the wise plant developer goes into his garden or orchard… his eyes turn always first and foremost to the leaves…”

p, 125
How Plants are Trained to Work for Man (1921) Vol. 5 Gardening

“In child rearing environment is equally essential with heredity.”

p, 125
The Training of the Human Plant (1907)

“Those who are making history seldom have time to record it.”

A Word to the Reader, (July 1, 1920) How Plants are Trained to Work for Man: Plant breeding (1921) Vol. 1. https://books.google.com/books?id=E0MyAQAAMAAJ

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