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W. Atlee Burpee is a name that many gardeners will recognize quickly, and a name that all gardeners should know. The “W” ...

WARMINSTER, Pa. — The drawback to being a household name is that people tend to take you for granted. Even when you’re W. Atlee Burpee & Co., the company that was first to sell see… ...

The W. Atlee Burpee & Co. is taking note of gardeners like Natal. Long regarded as the 800-pound gorilla of American seed companies, Burpee has diversified into live plants and even retail stores.

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

America’s love affair with seed catalogs goes all the way back to 1784, ... The familiar list of seed catalogs includes Burpee Seed, Gurney Seed and Nursery, Jung Seed, ...