At Burpee’s Floradale Seed Farms, our plant breeders carefully select the best individual plants to furnish seed 
for the next year’s sowing. Such plants are “caged” to prevent being mixed by bees. 
Burpee's Experimental Grounds and Seed Farms 
A glance at the above picture, which shows only a 
corner of our experimental grounds will give you 
some idea of the vast amount of work that goes 
on each year at our Floradale Seed Farms. By 
hybridization and the selection of the best indi¬ 
vidual plants for stock seed, standard varieties are 
being continually improved and new ones created. 
Our staff of expert plant breeders, with keen eyes 
and a knowledge of just what makes one plant 
better than another, go through our growing fields, 
experimental grounds and test blocks day after 
day selecting those plants which show special 
merit. To prevent pollenization by bees carrying 
pollen from some less desirable plant, the selected 
plants are “caged,” or, in other words, completely 
surrounded and covered with a muslin netting as 
shown in the picture above. Some of the “caged” 
plants are those which showed signs of a “break” 
or “mutation” and from which an entirely new 
or better variety may be developed. 
The actual results of this careful work and the 
many breeding projects conducted both at Flora- 
dale and at Fordhook, are seen in the new and 
improved varieties of flowers and vegetables with 
which, year after year, Burpee has enriched the 
gardens of the world. 
Burpee’s Fordhook and Burpee’s Floradale Farms 
are the most famous Seed Farms in the world. 
In addition to these great farms and experimental 
grounds, we grow large acreages of the finest veg¬ 
etable seeds in Michigan, Wyoming and Idaho, 
where the climatic conditions are most favorable 
for growing many varieties. Your success with 
Burpee’s Seeds is traceable directly to the work 
carried on at our farms. Through careful testing 
we are able to supply you with seeds of known 
quality, seeds that can honestly be guaranteed to 
grow, seeds that will give you the greatest returns 
from your investment and labor. We know 
Burpee’s Seeds will grow to perfection wherever 
they are sown; they are world famous. 
Because we specialize in seeds and operate our 
own seed-growing farms, we can quote the Lowest 
Prices for seeds of the Highest Quality. Send to 
Burpee for seeds that are guaranteed, reliable, 
dependable and which are sold to hundreds of 
thousands of gardeners annually. 63 years of 
experience growing seeds are back of Burpee’s 
Seeds; they are worth more but cost no more than 
others, so why gamble with your gardening suc¬ 
cess? Be sure of results, Sow Burpee’s Seeds— 
the Best Seeds that Grow. 
At Burpee’s Fordhook Farms, thousands of tests are made annually of both Flowers and Vegetables to assure 
Burpee customers the Highest Quality and Highest Vitality Seeds—the Best Seeds that Grow. 
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