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The Garden of Invention
Jane S. Smith
其他書名
Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants
出版
Penguin
, 2009-04-16
主題
Business & Economics / Industries / Agribusiness
Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology
History / Modern / 20th Century / General
ISBN
1101046228
9781101046227
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=WJUAnE7V2ewC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The wide-ranging and delightful history of celebrated plant breeder Luther Burbank and the business of farm and garden in early twentieth- century America
At no other time in history has there been more curiosity or concern about the food we eat-and genetically modified foods, in particular, have become both pervasive and suspect. A century ago, however, Luther Burbank's blight-resistant potatoes, white blackberries, and plumcots-a plum-apricot hybrid-were celebrated as triumphs in the best tradition of American ingenuity and perseverance. In his experimental grounds in Santa Rosa, California, Burbank bred and cross-bred edible and ornamental plants-for both home gardens and commercial farms-until they were bigger, hardier, more beautiful, and more productive than ever before. A fascinating portrait of an American original,
The Garden of Invention
is also a colorful and engrossing tale of the intersection of gardening, science and business in the years between the Civil War and the Great Depression.