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Updated: May 22, 2025
"That's a new verb made out of the name of Luther Burbank, the man who has raised such marvelous flowers in California and has turned the cactus into a food for cattle instead of a prickly nuisance." "I've heard of him," said Margaret. "'Burbanked' means 'changed into something superior, I suppose." "Something like that. Did you tell me you had a peony?"
She says she has seen people going by on the road sniff to see what that delicious fragrance was. I suppose these small ones must be the original pinks that the seedsmen have burbanked into the big double ones." "'Burbanked'?"
"The columbine has been 'burbanked. There's a pink one among the cultivated kinds. They're larger than the wild ones and very lovely." "Mother has some. Hers are called the 'Rose Queen," said Margaret. "There are yellow and blue ones, too." "Your grandmother can give you some pink Canterbury bells that will blossom this year. They're biennials, you know."
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