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Its appealing garden catalog always has been an early harbinger of the spring and summer growing season for novices as well as veteran gardeners, and made Burpee the largest seed company in the ...

Burpee knows. According to the giant seed catalog’s 2015 retail seed forecast, California’s many backyard fruit and vegetable farmers dig tomatoes most of all, followed by peppers, squash ...

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I hadn't been back to Fordhook Farm, the ancestral home of the W. Atlee Burpee family, since the summer of 1992, when I fell in love with a zucchini called 'Roly Poly.' So I dropped by recently to ...

Today, Fordhook Farm is the heart and soul of the W. Atlee Burpee Company, one of the leading seed breeding companies in the world. Wide lawns surround the 1700s-era farmhouse, built of fieldstone ...

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In time, his interest focused on seeds and plant breeding. By 1880, the W. Atlee Burpee Co. became the world's fastest growing mail-order seed company. In 1888, Burpee bought a farm near ...

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