Stark Bro's Nurseries & Orchards Co. is a horticultural company based in Louisiana, Missouri, that specializes in growing and selling fruit trees to home gardeners and orchardists. The company was the
Cover of the Stark fruit book, 1901
Luther Burbank
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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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…Virginia and was locally known as Mullin's Yellow Seedling and Annit apple until Anderson Mullins sold the rights to Stark Bro's. They collaborated with Luther Burbank who willed over 750 of his varieties to the company. Stark Brothers Nurseries briefly faced the possibility of closure during the summer of 2001, forcing…
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Burbank birthplace in Lancaster, Massachusetts
Photograph by Gabriel Moulin
Paul Stark Sr. pays his respects at Luther Burbank's gravesite