







Fordhook is the best known seed farm in the world. It was 
founded before the United States Government had any experi- 
ment stations. Here all varieties of vegetables and flowers are 
tested. Some of our favorite vegetables carry the name Fordhook; 
for instance, Fordhook Bush Lima Bean. Our friends and fellow 
gardeners are always welcome at Fordhook and Floradale. 








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School children gardening at Fordhook. Two large plots on Ford- 
hook Farms are given to school children and the people of Doyles- 
town for use as their own Victory Gardens. 

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Caging and poll single petunias for the creation of 
“tall doubles,’’ such as ‘“‘America Alldouble Petunia,”’ the 
All-America Silver Medal Winner of last year. 





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Flower seeds grown on Burpee’s Floradale Farms in Cali- 
fornia are tested here at Fordhook Farms in Pennsylvania. 
Above is a portion of our flower trial grounds. 



College girls 
helping us cre- 
ate new varie- 
ties of hybrid 
sweet corn at 
Burpee’s Ford- 
hook Farms 
located near 
Philad elphia. 
Because of the labor shortage twenty-two col- 
lege girls helped us with the hoeing and other 
work at Fordhook the past summer. We could 
hardly have gotten along without them. 

A few of the Burpee scientists doing microscopic 
and other research work in the laboratory on 
Burpee’s Fordhook Seed Farms. 
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