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Burpee Seeds and Plants, the Glossary

Burpee Seeds and Plants, officially W. Atlee Burpee & Co., is an American seed and plant company that was founded by Washington Atlee Burpee in Pennsylvania in 1876.^[1]

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American companies established in 1876
Horticultural companies of the United States
Seed companies

Alice Vonk

Alice Vonk (1908–1997) was an American floriculturist.

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Alois Lunzer

Alois Lunzer (17 June 1840 – 16 December 1921) was an Austrian-American watercolour painter.

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Colchicine

Colchicine is a medication used to prevent and treat gout, to treat familial Mediterranean fever and Behçet's disease, and to reduce the risk of myocardial infarction.

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Daily Press (Virginia)

The Daily Press Inc. is a daily morning newspaper published in Newport News, Virginia, which covers the lower and middle Peninsula of Tidewater Virginia.

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David Burpee

David Burpee (April 5, 1893 – June 24,1980) was a seedsman and president of the W.A. Burpee Company from 1915 until 1970.

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Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Doylestown is a borough in and the county seat of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Evening Independent

The Evening Independent was St. Petersburg, Florida's first daily newspaper.

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Fordhook Farm

Fordhook Farm, also known as Burpee Farm, is an historic farm and national historic district located at Doylestown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

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Gardening

Gardening is the process of growing plants for their vegetables, fruits, flowers, herbs, and appearances within a designated space.

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General Foods

General Foods Corporation was a company whose direct predecessor was established in the United States by Charles William Post as the Postum Cereal Company in 1895.

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George Ball (American businessman)

George Carl Ball Jr. is an American seedsman who has served as chairman of W. Atlee Burpee Company since 1991.

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Google News Archive

Google News Archive is an extension of Google News providing free access to scanned archives of newspapers and links to other newspaper archives on the web, both free and paid.

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Hybrid (biology)

In biology, a hybrid is the offspring resulting from combining the qualities of two organisms of different varieties, subspecies, species or genera through sexual reproduction.

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ITT Inc.

ITT Inc., formerly ITT Corporation, is an American worldwide manufacturing company based in Stamford, Connecticut.

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Lettuce

Lettuce (Lactuca sativa) is an annual plant of the family Asteraceae.

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Luther Burbank

Luther Burbank (March 7, 1849 – April 11, 1926) was an American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in agricultural science.

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McKinsey & Company (informally McKinsey or McK) is an American multinational strategy and management consulting firm that offers professional services to corporations, governments, and other organizations.

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Paul de Longpré

Paul de Longpré (1855–1911), was a French painter of flowers, who worked mainly in the United States.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Sarasota Herald-Tribune

The Sarasota Herald-Tribune is a daily newspaper, located in Sarasota, Florida, founded in 1925 as the Sarasota Herald.

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Seed company

Seed companies produce and sell seeds for flowers, fruits and vegetables to commercial growers and amateur gardeners. Burpee Seeds and Plants and seed company are seed companies.

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SEPTA

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) is a regional public transportation authority that operates bus, rapid transit, commuter rail, light rail, and electric trolleybus services for nearly four million people throughout five counties in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Tagetes

Tagetes is a genusSoule, J. A. 1996.

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The Beaver County Times

The Beaver County Times is a daily newspaper published in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, United States, serving suburban Beaver County northwest of Pittsburgh.

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The Free Lance–Star

The Free Lance–Star is the principal daily newspaper distributed throughout Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States, with a circulation area including the city of Fredericksburg and all or parts of the counties of Spotsylvania, Stafford, King George, Caroline, Culpeper, Fauquier, Louisa, Orange, Prince William and Westmoreland.

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The Plain Dealer

The Plain Dealer is the major newspaper of Cleveland, Ohio; it is a major national newspaper.

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Tomato

The tomato is the edible berry of the plant Solanum lycopersicum, commonly known as the tomato plant.

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Victory garden

Victory gardens, also called war gardens or food gardens for defense, were vegetable, fruit, and herb gardens planted at private residences and public parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Germany during World War I and World War II.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burpee_Seeds_and_Plants

Also known as Burpee Seeds, Burpee's Stringless Green Pod, W. Atlee Burpee & Co..