Word: rosa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Death had gone to southern California, it would not have found Mr. Burbank, for he lived and died in Santa Rosa, which is 54 miles north of San Francisco, and more than 300 miles north of the Tehachapi Mountains, which form the barrier between northern and southern California...
...date 38 letters admonishing TIME for placing Santa Rosa in Southern California have been received, noted...
Luther Burbank's home and gardens are at Santa Rosa, about 40 miles north of San Francisco...
...last, and songsters, scenery, dancers and orchestra?enough to fill some 30 Pullman cars?were packed off on two special trains for Atlanta* for the annual week of opera. Southerners socially and musically inclined were ready for them, flocked from all over the countryside to hear Aida, with Rosa Ponselle and Giovanni Martinelli; Don Quichotte, with Feodor Chaliapin; La Bohême, with Lucrezia Bori, Beniamino Gigli, Antonio Scotti; Pagliacci, with Mary Lewis, Armand Tokatyan, Lawrence Tibbett; Jewels of the Madonna, with Florence Easton and Martinelli; Lucia, with Marion Talley; Tannhauser, with Rudolf Laubenthal; II Trovatore...
...13th of 15 children born to a Scotch-English farmer of Lancaster, Mass. Crossed in love in his twenties, he turned his back upon the girl and went to California, where he hired himself out to farmers until able to acquire land of his own at Santa Rosa. In 1881, his small nursery business leapt to great proportions when a banker asked, in the spring, to have 20,000 prune trees for fall planting. Young Burbank bought almond seeds, sprouted them, grafted prune buds to the sprouts and delivered 20,000 prune shoots for the banker's fall planting...