Luther Burbank was an American botanist, horticulturist, and pioneer in agricultural science who developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career. Burbank primarily work
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Burbank birthplace in Lancaster, Massachusetts
Photograph by Gabriel Moulin
Paul Stark Sr. pays his respects at Luther Burbank's gravesite
Russet Burbank is a potato cultivar with brown skin and few eyes that is the most widely grown potato in North America. A russet type, its flesh is white, dry, and mealy, and it is good for baking, ma
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…the freestone peach, and the white blackberry. A natural genetic variant of the Burbank potato with russet-colored skin later became known as the russet Burbank potato. This large, brown-skinned, white-fleshed potato has become the world's predominant potato in food processing. The Russet Burbank potato originated to…