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    PLUM PERFECT

    Oct 02, 2020 4 minutes

    WHEN I MOVED to Sonoma County, Calif., from the East Coast in 1985, I was surprised by what a presence Luther Burbank still had around the county seat of Santa Rosa. Yes, he died in 1926, but there was the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, the Luther Burbank Savings & Loan and other places named for the famous plantsman of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

    A main tourist attraction was the Luther Burbank Home & Gardens. His house, greenhouse and outbuildings still stood and some of the trees he’d hybridized were still growing there. There was the prickly pear cactus he’d cajoled into shedding its spines. There was the

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