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