Caption: After the Civil War, commercial seed companies promoted the planting of new varieties of potatoes and other produce to farmers and gardeners across the nation.
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Caption: Burpee's Farm Annual Thoroughbred Stock, 1886 cover.
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Caption: 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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Caption: Burpee's Farm Annual, Front cover, 1899.
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Caption: Burpee's Farm Annual, Inside page, 1891.
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Caption: Burpee's Farm Annual, Inside page, 1887.
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Caption: Burpee's Farm Annual, Inside page, 1887.
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Caption: Cross-pollinating hybrids on his Fordhook Farm in Doylestown, W. Atlee Burpee created Iceberg lettuce, Fordhook lima beans, and Golden Bantam sweet corn.
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