{"product_id":"9780143116899","title":"The Garden of Invention: Luther Burbank and the Business of Breeding Plants","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e The wide-ranging and delightful history of celebrated plant breeder Luther Burbank and the business of farm and garden in early twentieth- century America \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt no other time in history has there been more curiosity or concern about the food we eat-and genetically modified foods, in particular, have become both pervasive and suspect. A century ago, however, Luther Burbank's blight-resistant potatoes, white blackberries, and plumcots-a plum-apricot hybrid-were celebrated as triumphs in the best tradition of American ingenuity and perseverance. In his experimental grounds in Santa Rosa, California, Burbank bred and cross-bred edible and ornamental plants-for both home gardens and commercial farms-until they were bigger, hardier, more beautiful, and more productive than ever before. A fascinating portrait of an American original, \u003ci\u003eThe Garden of Invention\u003c\/i\u003e is also a colorful and engrossing tale of the intersection of gardening, science and business in the years between the Civil War and the Great Depression.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47011684516080,"sku":"9780143116899","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780143116899_p0.jpg?v=1763656998","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780143116899","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}