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    A Life of Growth

    Jun 25, 2020 4 minutes

    IT’S AMAZING what can come from curiosity and imagination. Dr. Carl Whitcomb, age 80, credits his dozens of successes in plant research and breeding to these qualities. The president of Lacebark Inc., a horticultural-research farm near Stillwater, Okla., he has accomplished much over his career, with more likely to come.

    Whitcomb grew up on rented farms in southeastern Kansas, making toys to match the ones for sale in the Sears catalog and studying the plants in the fields around him. He was told college would be a waste of time, but he was undeterred. He paid for his undergrad

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