Show History LUTHER BURBANKS BURBANK'S BIRTH BIRTHDAY DAY DA Y March 7 Luther Burbank was born on a u farm furm near Lancas Lancas- Lancaster ter Massachusetts March 7 1849 lie He secured his education in fn the neighborhood schools and engaged in market gardening in a small way In the course of his opera opera- operations operations he lie developed a new type of potato At the age of twenty six he went to Santa Rosa Hosa California where he lie established a min nursery ery in which he experimented extensive extensive- extensively ly Iy in the production of new varie varie- varieties varieties ties tICS of lowers flowers i and vegetables In 1893 he gave up the nursery and devoted exclusively to a series of experiments with wilh plants As a II result of his research many new lIew varieties of o vegetables plants fruits and lowers were produced California in recognition of Bur Bun Burbank's Burbanks Burbanks banks bank's labors observes Arbor day dayon on his birthday The California legislature passed a bill in which it designated March 7 the birth birth- birthday birthday day Jay ot of Mr Burbank as Bird and Arbor day The act directs that all schools observe the day not as a holiday but as a day upon which special attention be given upon the economic value of trees and birds and the promotion of a n spirit of protection toward them |