THE MINNESOTA 
HORTICULTURIST. 
VOL. 28. MARCH, 1900. No. 3. 
LUTHER BURBANK AND HIS HORTICULTURAL 
CREATIONS. 
PROF. S. B. GREEN, ST. ANTHONY PARK. 
Every farmer and gardener. and almost every person in Minnesota, 
knows of the Burbank potato, which has so long been a standard market 
sort here, but comparatively few know of its origin or that the producer of 
it has continued, since giving us that, to bless mankind by developing many 
other desirable plant products. The Burbank potato was originated by 
Luther Burbank’s Home, Santa Rosa, California. 
Luther Burbank in 1873, while living in Massachusetts, which is his native 
state. It was grown froma seed ball of the Early Rose, that was very likely 
crossed with the Davis seedling, which grew in the same field. The seed 
was sown in the open ground and produced potatoes of full size the first 
year. ‘He sold his stock of this to J. J. H. Gregory, and with the money 
thus obtained he moved to California, where the climatic conditions are 
better adapted than those of Massachusetts to the development of new vari- 
