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Prologue
Part I Inventing the Garden
1 Nature in an Age of Invention 13
2 The Lucky Spud 35
3 The Second Gold Rush 51
4 Faster, Better, Sweeter 75
5 A Personal Interlude 99
6 Marketing the New Creation 107
Part II Understanding the Garden
7 The Philosopher in the Orchard, the Scientist in the Pea Patch 133
8 California Boosters and the Ivory Tower 159
9 The Carnegie Institution Seal of Approval 175
10 The Training of the Human Plant 189
11 Learning from Luther Burbank 197
12 The Corn Palace and the Empire of the Prickly Pear 319
Part III Possessing the Garden
13 The Meeting of the Masters 239
14 The Garden of Beautiful Thoughts 253
15 Transplanting the Legacy 273
16 The Creator's Art 287
17 The Garden as Intellectual Property 297
Epilogue: Searching for Luther Burbank 317
Acknowledgments 327
Notes 330
Selected Bibliography 337
Index 344
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Lori Goldfarb
reviewed The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants on February 14, 2013
The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants
Although I found the story of HOW he did the amazing things he did with plants fascinating I noticed almost immediatly that this book didn't make me feel at all like I'd met the man. It was rather impersonal. I suppose we modern readers like a little more detail. This was a very interestng book that I'd recommend to anyone interested in gardening or history but I still feel like I know nothing about this guy. We always want to know what our heroes eat for breakfast, what brand of toothpaste do they use and little things like that. I may be exaggerating a little, but it's shame more of those fun little details couln't have been included. ARe there no accounts of such that have survived? I was really hoping to learn what his favorite breakfast cereal was. Sigh.
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