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 mus¬ 
lin 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 experi¬ 
mental 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. Your suc¬ 
cess 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 guar¬ 
anteed to grow, seeds that will give you the great¬ 
est 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. 
