The Meeting of Thomas A. Edison, Henry Ford, and Luther Burbank on the Porch of Burbank’s Santa Rosa Home, 1915, Luther Burbank, Twentieth Century Fruits (Santa Rosa, California, 1916-1917); Courtesy New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library/Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Meeting of Thomas A. Edison, Henry Ford, and Luther Burbank on the Porch of Burbank’s Santa Rosa Home, 1915, Luther Burbank, Twentieth Century Fruits (Santa Rosa, California, 1916-1917); Courtesy New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library/Biodiversity Heritage Library

The Meeting of Thomas A. Edison, Henry Ford, and Luther Burbank on the Porch of Burbank’s Santa Rosa Home, 1915, Luther Burbank, Twentieth Century Fruits (Santa Rosa, California, 1916-1917); Courtesy New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library/Biodiversity Heritage Library