
GETABLES 
JPONICTORY 













HE 1944 demand for vegetable seeds will break all 
records; we believe we are ready to meet your require- 
ments. But please remember 1943’s hectic season and ' 
cover your needs as soon as possible. A few scenes from 
Burpee Vegetable 
In 1948 20,000,000 Victory Gardens used DOUBLE the Ee es 
: tom: Burpee’s Rh u- 
amount of vegetable seeds in 1942, and grew the tremendous barb Chard, Lima 
crop of 7,940,000 tons of vegetables; the Dept. of Agri- Gatrelacs® Cauliiowes, 
culture and National Victory Garden Institute are calling Onion," Burpee’s Cel: 
for 22,000,000 Victory Gardens in 1944; in addition the com- 
mercial growers must be supplied for their increased pro- 
duction. 
On Burpee’s Fordhook Farms in Pennsylvania, the best- 
known seed growing and testing farms in the world, all pos- 
sible manpower and acreage has been utilized to produce 
more and better vegetable seeds. In the soils and climates 
where each class produces the best seeds, Burpee growing 
fields have been operated from coast to coast. 
On Burpee’s famous Floradale Farms in California thou- 
sands of acres have been devoted to vegetables, many here- 
tofore used for flowers. Floradale has been found ideal for 
many vegetable seed crops in prewar days believed impos- 
sible or impracticable to produce in the United States. 
Your Want Lists of Vegetable and Flower Seeds Will Burpee vegetable ex- 
e ° . perts analyze Beet 
Receive Our Prompt Attention If You Mail them Early [i's °°? Floradale, 
where extensive Vege- — 
table Trials are also 
maintained. 


A few of the hundreds of acres of Burpee’s Fordhook Farms in 
Pennsylvania, photo of a portion of the extensive Vegetable Trials 
conducted here. Every Burpee variety is Burpee-tested under ac- 
tual growing conditions. 
—and— CLINTON, IOWA 
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