Luther Burbank, boy wizard
Olive Woolley Burt
Hardcover
(Bobbs-Merrill, March 15, 1962)
Luther Burbank (1849-1926) was one of America's most famous and prolific horticulturists, developing some 800 new varieties of plants including the Shasta daisy and Burbank potato, a form of which, the Russet Burbank, is now the world's most widely grown potato," (Scott Kunst in the online newsletter for Old House Gardens).