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 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 many new 
and improved varieties of flowers and vegetables 
which Burpee has introduced. 
Burpee’s Fordhook and Burpee’s Floradale 
Farms are the most famous Seed Farms in the 
world. In addition to these great farms and ex¬ 
perimental grounds, we grow large acreages of the 
finest vegetable seeds in Michigan, Wyoming and 
Idaho, where the climatic conditions are most 
favorable for growing many varieties. The suc¬ 
cess of 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 are world famous, 
seeds that will actually sell themselves, seeds that 
will give you the greatest returns from your in¬ 
vestment. We know Burpee’s Seeds will grow to 
perfection wherever they are sown; you cannot 
handle seeds of Better Quality. 
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 dependable 
and which are backed by 63 years of experience 
growing seeds. No expense is spared to provide 
Burpee customers with the Best Seeds that 
Grow. Dealers everywhere appreciate their 
Better Quality and low wholesale prices. 
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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