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(1920s) Luther Burbank
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1920s Highlights
People
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Luther Burbank
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<p>(JANUARY 18, 1926)
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<p> Out in Santa Rosa, in Sonoma County, Calif., where Pacific
breezes make days pleasant and nights chill, for 50 years
Naturalist Luther Burbank has been making a bit of desert bloom
weirdly yet profitably. Since 1875 he has been on his
experiment farm mating pistils to stamens in strange
concubinage, getting sometimes a beautiful scion, sometimes a
grotesque mongrel, sometimes finding a futile barrenness. Last
week Naturalist Burbank was elated, greeted pressmen with news
of seven miracles of hybridization in plants. He reported a new
camassia, blue tinted, excelling all others in beauty and
ability to multiply; a rainbowteosinte, a giant corn that grows
eight feet tall and produces 8 to 14 ears a stalk; a giant
cactus-flowering zinnia, developed from the familiar plant; a
hybrid of the torch lily, the tritoma, which will bloom
profusely in cold climates; and even more magnificent Shasta
daisy than blooms at present; a new strain of giant asters of
breath-taking fluffiness; and eight new gladioli.</p>
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