LUTHER BURBANK, GOWDA JAYASHREE NARASIMHA, GHS KADABAGERE,BANGALORE NORTH –O1

1. LUTHER BURBANK
GOWDA JAYASHREE NARASIMHA
GHS KADABAGERE,BANGALORE NORTH –O1
ENGLISH PPT
2013­14

2. Objectives
Students will be able to……………..
Recall the early life of Luther.
Understand about grafting.
Identify the different varieties of flowers and
vegetables.
Learn about the experiments conducted by Luther.

3. Who turned the roses into different color

4. Who turned fruits into seedless

6. Luther Burbank
NAME: Luther Burbank
OCCUPATION: Botanist,
Journalist
BIRTH DATE: March 07,
1849
DEATH DATE: April 11, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH:
Lancaster, Massachusetts
PLACE OF DEATH: Santa
Rosa, California

7. Idaho potatoes
Burbank was attracted towards the wonders of nature
and learned the techniques of growing various crops
and plants in his life.
He started market gardening
at the age of 21,he planted
29 seeds from an early rose
potato plant.
This was called’’ Idaho potato’’

8. Darwin ……..
Luther was inspired by
the Darwin’s book
‘Variation of animals and
plants under
domestication’

9. BARBANK’S HOME
At the age of 26,Burbank moved to California where the
climate and soil was suitable for his experiments. He
carried on his exp. For more than 15 years on
‘’Santa Rosa’’
near San Francisco

10. Grafting
He had grown several
varieties of
flowers and fruits by
grafting many
twigs on a single plant.

11. GRAFTING
He grew many fruits and
vegetables by changing water,
food supply’temparatre etc.
He grew dissimilar plants by
crossing the plants.

13. CACTUS WITHOUT THORNS
Burbank carried out more
than10’000 experiments with
600 different kinds of plants.
He developed cactus without
thorns

14. Shasta daisy and Burbank Roses
He developed 73 varieties of
flowers including the Shasta
daisy and Burbank Roses

15. Berries
At the end of his
successful attempt to
produce a white berry
from black berry.

16. Many of his efforts ended
in failure but he was not
disapointed.He worked
with the simple element
of nature to produce
effects that were
remarkable as in the other
fields.