# Luther Burbank

Luther Burbank Produced: 1922 Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: “Luther Burbank breeds plants for better food and more beautiful flowers. His modest home at Santa Rosa in California, is surrounded by 3,000 different plants.” View of home. “He wants us to know of his experiments which have given the world 300 new and useful plants.” Burbank and another man sitting on porch. “More than 100,000 experiments, extending over fifty years, have been conducted in these gardens.” View of garden, trees. “In the seed and storage house, a full record is kept of each plant’s growth.” View of house, small field. “The soil, moisture and temperature for plant growth are controlled in this greenhouse.” Greenhouse attached to back of house, garden. “Plants from all parts of the world are patiently watched.” Burbank and another man in garden. “The potato was Mr. Burbank’s first study when a boy, and as a result the Burbank potato is raised in all parts of the world. It is clean, smooth skinned and solid.” Hand holding potato. “This potato produces more to each acre.” Negro workers in potato field. “The new wheat growing in this field is hardy, has a full head and its seed is worth $4,000 per bushel.” Field of wheat at side of house - Burbank in wheat field. “It has taken ten years or more to improve this wheat.” Close-up of wheat in field. “Compare the new oats with the common farm oats.” Burbank holding the two stalks of oats.…

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1922
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/fc-fc-3145)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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