Dr. Wyches Yellow tomato from the Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds catalog. ... which mailed 2.5 million 2009 catalogs. And Burpee isn’t oblivious to the allure of heirlooms.

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 ...

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 ...

25 Free Seed Catalogs to Request in January 1. Burpee Seed Company. One of the most established seed sellers out there, Burpee has one of the largest selections of garden plants and flowers.

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

2012 seed catalogue review. January 11, 2012. By Barbara Damrosch. If the print medium has died, why do seed catalogues still litter our desks and coffee tables in healthy numbers?

The Smithsonian Institution Libraries’ trade catalog collection includes about 10,000 seed and nursery catalogs dating from 1830 to the present. This seed catalog is from the W. Atlee Burpee & Co., ...

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, ...