Burpee s FLORADALE FARMS 
Floradale is the original seed farm of the 
Lompoc Valley of California. For years 
Floradale has been famous for the fine quality 
of flower seeds it produces. But since before 
Pearl Harbor it has also been producing 
the finest quality of many kinds of vegetable 
seeds that formerly came from Europe. 

















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Burpee’s vegetables are grown where soil and climate com- 
bine to produce highest quality seeds. Tests are made here, 
as well as at Fordhook, for purity and adaptability. 
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Two of the Burpee vegetable experts comparing 
and carefully noting different selections of squash 
in the experimental grounds at Floradale Farms. 


A four-acre field of the carnation-flowered Burpee 
Gold Marigold with odorless foliage growing for seed. 
Burpee originated all odorless-foliaged marigolds. 


In the background, 
a field of cauliflower 
going to seed. In 
the center, trials of 
salad greens are be- 
ing noted by one of 
the Burpee experts. 

Bill Hoag, manager of Burpee’s Floradale 
Farms, used to specialize in flowers, but 
now he is knee-deep in cauliflower and 
other vegetables growing at Floradale. 
A field of half-grown cauliflower 
plants. Before the war the best cauli- 
flower seed came from Denmark. 
Now it comes from Floradale Farms. 
