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Gastropod — Meet the Most Famous American You’ve Never Heard Of: His Legacy is Excellent French Fries and Monsanto
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Meet the Most Famous American You’ve Never Heard Of: His Legacy is Excellent French Fries and Monsanto

Gastropod

In his day, Luther Burbank was a horticultural rock star: everyone from opera singers to movie stars and European royalty to an Indian guru traveled to Santa Rosa, California, to meet him. Dubbed the "plant wizard," Burbank invented the plumcot and the stoneless plum, the white blackberry, and the potato variety used…

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