Burbank, Luther

Luther Burbank
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Name	Burbank, Luther Gender: M
born on	7 March 1849 at 23:57 (= 11:57 PM )
Place	Lancaster, Massachusetts, 42n27, 71w40
Timezone	LMT m71w40 (is local mean time)
Data source	Bio/autobiography Rodden Rating B Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data	17°32' 07°13 Asc. 28°06'

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Luther Burbank

Biography

American horticulturist who, as a plant breeder, developed new strains and improved existing agriculture by crossing and selection. When he was a youthful gardener, Burbank established a successful nursery, which he sold in 1893 to begin an experimental farm. He died on 11 April 1926 in Santa Rosa, California.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Events

• Financial : Gain significant money 1893 (Sold nursery)

• Death, Cause unspecified 11 April 1926 (Age 76)
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Source Notes

Sy Scholfield quotes from A Gardener Touched with Genius: The Life of Luther Burbank by Peter Dreyer (Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1975), page 60: "a boy born of plain people at Lancaster, Massachusetts, . . . Luther Burbank was born at 11:57 p.m. on March 7, 1849, three days after the Inauguration of "Old Rough-and-Ready" Zachary Taylor."

Same data in Sabian Symbols No.150.

Categories

• Vocation : Business : Business owner (Nursery)

• Notable : Famous : Historic figure (Horticulture)

• Notable : Famous : Founder/ originator (New strains)

• Notable : Book Collection : American Book