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3. of late 4. kinds

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luThER BuRBanK
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[Luther Burbank is a well known U.S. plant
breeder. Influenced by Charles Darwin’s
writings on domesticated plants, he set up a
nursery garden, green house, and experimental
farms in Santa Rosa, California and worked
miracles. This write-up describes how Luther
Burbank achieved his ambition of growing and
grafting varieties of fruits and vegetables.]
[Source : Britannica Encyclopaedia]

1. What does the world call a man who turned
a yellow flower into red; who made the seeds
of plums disappear; who caused desert
cactus to grow a thousand times faster; who
made a blackberry white; and who grew 500 luther Burbank
different kinds of cherries on one tree? Was
he a master gardener, a skilled plant grower, a talented and patient
breeder, or a miracle working magician?

2. The man responsible for controlling nature in these and countless
other ways has been awarded many titles, but essentially he was a
simple, hard working scientist named Luther Burbank.

3. Though Luther Burbank is no more, the products of his genius
continue to play a part in the day-to-day lives of people throughout
the world. His influence prevails in the scientific community among
those who work in the fields of agriculture, horticulture, forestry
and livestock. His most important contribution, however, is a lovely
flower that never existed before him. Also, he developed a fruit or
vegetable the taste of which was improved with his experiment.
4. Burbank was born on March 7, 1849 and was brought up on a

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