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 ...

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 ...

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.

There’s nothing like contemplating the growing season ahead to pull you out of a stone cold, ice-driven, snow-shoveling funk.

In the middle of a long, cold winter, it warms a gardener’s heart to find the mailbox packed with seed and plant catalogs. I recently received a trio of them from the granddaddy of the seed ...

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.

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 ...

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., ...

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 ...

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, ...