Format:
Book
Title:
The garden of invention : Luther Burbank and the business of breeding plants / Jane S. Smith.
Author:
Smith, Jane S.
Call Number:
630.92 SMITH
Publisher, Date:
New York : Penguin Press, 2009.
Description:
354 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Subjects:
Burbank, Luther, 1849-1926.
Plant breeders -- United States -- Biography.
Plant breeding -- United States -- History.
Contents:
Nature in an age of invention -- The lucky spud -- The second gold rush -- Faster, better, sweeter -- A personal interlude -- Marketing the new creation -- The philosopher in the orchard, the scientist in the pea patch -- California boosters and the ivory tower -- The Carnegie Institution seal of approval -- The training of the human plant -- Learning from Luther Burbank -- The Corn Palace and the empire of the prickly pear -- The meeting of the masters -- The garden of beautiful thoughts -- Transplanting the legacy -- The creator's art -- The garden as intellectual property.
ISBN:
1594202095
9781594202094 (alk. paper)