BURBANK, LUTHER

(1849), American horticulturist, etc.; Lancaster, Ma . The son of a working farmer, he was largely taught, but managed to obtain academic training at the Lancaster Academy. In 1875 he went out to busine in Santa Rosa. Here, proce of natural selection, by means experiments of tremendous scope, created new varieties of berries, vegetables and even timber trees. the most known of these are the potato, the ‘Plumcot,’ the pineapple quince, a spinele cactus, the lum,’ of tremendous size, etc. flowers his creations have been more remarkable, including daisies most a foot in diameter, an of equal size, etc. By cro ing he also produced a walnut tree grows into timber size in sixteen The cause of his succe is the tremendous scale on which he carries on his ments, his selections being made hundreds of you sands of plants. His methods and their results Badman are explained in detail in a work of 12 other volumes, Luther Burbank; His Methods and Discoveries. He has also written How Planis are Trained to Work for Man, 1921. body (1855-1920), an American bishop; b. the in Pinckney, Mich. Graduating from Mooring the University of Michigan, in 1875 are he went into the publishing busine , is in Chicago, later becoming managing more editor of the Grand Rapids (Mich.-) is to Pre . In 1905 he was ordained a, priest channel, of the Protestant-Episcopal Church and became rector of St. Andrew’s sunken Church, on Staten Island, N. Y. In 1911 he became suffragan bishop of New York, and in 1919, Bishop. E.), hemp.