 By the 1880s, Wickson was praising Burbank's hybrids in the pages of "Pacific Rural Press", so much so that Burbank renamed his green Perfection plum to the Wickson plum in 1894.Wickson is credited with being one of the two men (the other being former Stanford University president David Starr Jordan) who helped created the legend of Burbank as one of the great self-taught leaders of modern agricultural science.Wickson is also said to be one of the half dozen authors who anonymously wrote the text for the 12-volume set "Luther Burbank