Burpee’s 
Famous 
Seed Far 
Flower Seed Trials at Fordhook 
Tests for Vitality in a Greenhouse 
Fordhook Farms and 
Experimental Gardens 
It is the considered opinion of more than a million garden lovers in 
America that Burpee’s Seeds Are the Best Seeds That Grow. We 
know that the fundamental reason for this good opinion and good will, so 
vital to the success of our business, is the fact that W. Atlee Burpee Co. 
has established and keeps in full operation two of the largest and most 
scientifically organized Experimental Seed Farms to be found anywhere 
in the world today. 
The tangible results of the long series of experiments in cross¬ 
breeding and hybridizing undertaken both at Fordhook and Flora- 
dale, are seen in the new and improved varieties of flowers and 
vegetables with which year by year Burpee’s have enriched the 
gardens of America. 
Fordhook Farms, nearly 800 acres in extent—and where the Burpee 
homestead is located—was the scene of the first experiments in plant 
breeding initiated by W. Atlee Burpee, whose persistent and painstaking 
efforts to evolve a race of glorified Sweet Peas were crowned with such 
phenomenal success that the name of Burpee has become inseparably 
linked with Sweet Peas. The wonderful varieties he successively intro¬ 
duced are now world-famous. 
Developing New Flowers and Vegetables 
We are proud to record that during the decade just past we have placed 
in the gardens of America more really valuable flowers and vegetables 
than any other seed house. Notable among the Burpee introductions are 
the sensational new Ruffled Sweet Peas, Golden Cosmos, improved Mari¬ 
golds, Petunias and Zinnias, and a number of improved table vegetables 
which have greatly enriched the diet of the people of today. 
One of our recent achievements is the startling transformation 
of the humble single Nasturtiums into the glorious race of double 
Nasturtiums we offer in this catalog for 1936. 
To bring to their present state of perfection Burpee’s Double 
Hybrid Nasturtiums, 40,000 hand crosses were made, and experi¬ 
ments are still proceeding on our Seed Farms. 
Our staff of expert plant breeders are continuously working with all 
flowers and vegetables in order to obtain new and improved varieties. . 
Our Fordhook Farms are also utilized largely for growing, testing 
and insuring the trueness-to-type of all the seeds we send out, so that 
they may have the backing of the Burpee Guarantee, printed on page 1. 
More than 22,000 of these tests are made annually as each strain is 
carefully compared with all similar strains in cultivation and the results 
carefully recorded in our Trial Books. This is really the most exacting 
part of our business as seed growers, but it has helped to make the repu¬ 
tation of Burpee’s Seeds—the best seeds that grow. 
You are cordially invited to visit Fordhook Farms and see the beautiful 
Burpee Gardens during the growing season any time from spring to fall. 
They are at Doylestown and adjoin highway route 611 leading north 
from Philadelphia. There are at all times some very interesting things 
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to see. 
A Visit of 
American and 
Canadian 
Seed Experts 
to Fordhook 
Farms, 
Doylestown, 
Pa. 
“Fordhook Farms Trial Grounds were a valuable object lesson to me," turner Burbank 
