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Test plantings of Bush Lima Beans with Pole Limas in the background on 
Burpee’s Fordhook Farms in Pennsylvania. It is for these farms that 
F F : : 2 F Burpee’s famous Fordhook Bush Lima Bean was named as were such well- 
MS A rcation span pla ate ee ee known vegetables as Fordhook Celery, Fordhook Famous Cucumber, Ford- 
hook Pickling Cucumber, Fordhook Early Watermelon, Fordhook Wonder 
; pei 22° Me ren ee flowers were Pea, Fordhook Pepper, Fordhook Hybrid Tomato, etc. 


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In the Burpee Experiment Grounds, Phil Alampi, WJZ 
















Burpee Hybrid Cucumber in the fore- 
ground. Due to the hybrid’s ability to 
ithstand mosaic and downy mildew, 
the vines continue to produce their 
. fruits most profusely long after open 
pollinated varieties have ceased. This 
picture was taken late in the summer. 
Note that the vines of a regular variety 
in the background are nearly dead— 
Burpee Hybrid keeps on growing and 
bearing fruits to everyone’s astonish- 
ment. The extreme vigor and high qual- 
ity of Burpee Hybrid have made it a 
most popular, white spine, slicing type 
cucumber everywhere. See page 77. 

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A section of the breeding and College girls hand pollinate to- Hivos 
experiment grounds at Fordhook Farms devoted to petunias. It was mato blossoms at Fordhook to create the four new Fi hybrids we 
here that some of our best varieties were created —the Alldoubles have introduced in recent years and Burpee’s Big Boy, the new 
and the new Multiflora F: hybrid Silver Medal being introduced Giant Hybrid Tomato being offered for the first time this year. 
this year —the only medal winner in the All-America Trials for 1949. Read about Big Boy on page 104; see color picture on back cover. 
