The Garden of Invention Quotes

“Luther Burbank’s Plant Contributions, which documented Burbank’s introduction of over eight hundred original varieties of fruits, flowers, vegetable, nuts, and grains—”
― Jane S. Smith, The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants

“molecular biologists have learned how to move genetic material between animals and plants, breed crops to resist specific herbicides, or guarantee the sterility of that profligate of pollen,”
― Jane S. Smith, The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants

“Plant Patent Act of 1930. It was the first legislation anywhere in the world that treated growing things as intellectual property. In”
― Jane S. Smith, The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants

“judged by the Harvard Law Review in 1904 to be “probably the best modern text-book on the law of patents, and . . . the only treatment of the modern American law of patents.” Speaking before the same House Committee on Patents, Walker argued that protection of plants as intellectual property should be limited to those who actually create new plants, as opposed to those who merely discover a previously unknown organism.”
― Jane S. Smith, The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants

“The stipulations were that the product must be useful, nonobvious, and new.”
― Jane S. Smith, The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants

“Beets, carrots, turnips, cabbage, and almost anything cultivated in the soil, produces about twenty tons per acre for a good crop,”
― Jane S. Smith, The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants

“In 1873, Mrs. Eliza Tibbets, a resident of the struggling three-year-old city of Riverside, California, received two orange tree bud stocks from the U.S. Department of Agriculture as part of the national seed distribution program. The buds were “sports” derived from an orange tree discovered in Bahia, Brazil, and the fruit proved to be thick-skinned, delicious, and conveniently free of seeds.”
― Jane S. Smith, The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants

“They also were aware of heterosis, or hybrid vigor, by which the product of a cross was often stronger and better yielding than either of the parents but then inexplicably declined in subsequent generations.”
― Jane S. Smith, The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants

“incredulity”
― Jane S. Smith, The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants

“lines of punning doggerel”
― Jane S. Smith, The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants

“Burbank’s “extraordinary and exceptional faculty,” he said, to “the careful, scientific way.”
― Jane S. Smith, The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants

“Carnegie was not afraid to tell his trustees that he “worried about men of science interfering with the work of a genius.”
― Jane S. Smith, The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants

“they did not accept the growing distinction between academic and applied science”
― Jane S. Smith, The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants

“he tries so many things for the mere zest of it,”
― Jane S. Smith, The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants

“compared Burbank to Tolstoy, “in that, when one was with him, one felt the strange force of his simplicity and his profound confidence in his own abilities.”
― Jane S. Smith, The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants

“mutations are only extreme examples of evolutionary change and that grafts are another form of hybrid.”
― Jane S. Smith, The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants

“prodigious powers of retention,”
― Jane S. Smith, The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants

“With better and still better fruits, nuts, grains, and flowers will the earth be transformed, man’s thoughts turned from the base, destructive forces into the nobler productive ones which will lift him to higher planes of action toward that happy day when man shall offer his brother man, not bullets and bayonets, but richer grains, better fruits, and fairer flowers.”
― Jane S. Smith, The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants

“Agronomist” was another new name, used to differentiate an expert in the science of soil management and crop production from his more humble associate, the farmer.”
― Jane S. Smith, The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants

“pomologist, not to be confused with a thremmatologist, who is a propagator of plants and animals.”
― Jane S. Smith, The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants

“Burbank’s gardens was the product of his unmatched skill as a hybridizer and his equally remarkable talent for selection.”
― Jane S. Smith, The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants

“The great essential is that the scion and rootstock be cut to expose the vascular cambium—the thin layer of tissue just under the bark in which new cells are formed—and that they be joined so that the two vascular cambiums are touching.”
― Jane S. Smith, The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants

“The budding branch is called the scion, and it is rarely larger than a twig and often holds no more than a single bud.”
― Jane S. Smith, The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants