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Back cover of the 1890 Burpee Seed Catalogue, showing pictures of its Philadelphia warehouses and the Fordhook Farm outside of Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
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Burpee Seed Catalogue, 1890 back cover Philadelphia warehouses and the Fordhook Farm outside of Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

Credit: Courtesy of Burpee Seed Company

Burpee transformed his Doylestown farm Fordhook, seen in the lower panels, into a world-famous center for the development of new vegetables and flowers, including the bush lima bean and Golden Bantam yellow sweet corn.

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