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2. Fordhook Farm - Wikipedia

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   It encompasses 12 contributing buildings and 2 contributing structures. They include the houses, barn, spring house, ice house, carriage house, "farm house," "cottage" and seed house, and two greenhouses. The main house is constructed of fieldstone, and the oldest section pre-dates 1798. Washington Atlee Burpee (1858-1915) purchased the farm in ...

3. Burpee Seeds and Plants - Wikipedia

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   The company expanded to selling garden seeds, farm supplies, tools and hogs after customers began asking for seeds they had grown in their native farms. In 1888, the family farm, Fordhook Farm in Doylestown, Pennsylvania , was established as a family farm and crop field trials after Burpee began traveling to Europe to collect seeds which needed ...

4. Fordhook Farm's Burpee Open offers behind-the-scenes ... - AOL

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   Burpee, a well-known garden, seed and plant company, was founded in Philadelphia in 1876 under the name W. Atlee Burpee Company. Burpee later purchased the 60-acre property on New Britain Road in ...

5. Washington Atlee Burpee - Wikipedia

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   The company soon switched to primarily garden seed, but live poultry wasn't dropped from the Burpee catalog until the 1940s. By 1888, the family home, Fordhook Farm in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, was established as an experimental farm to test and evaluate new varieties of vegetables and flowers, and to produce seeds. Before World War I, Atlee ...

6. Heronswood (botanical garden) - Wikipedia

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   After the 2012 sale of the Heronswood Nursery Company, Burpee retained rights to sell Heronswood cultivars. The primary Burpee display and trial gardens are presently located on the Fordhook Farm in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Fordhook Farm is the original home and gardens of seed pioneer Washington Atlee Burpee. [13]

7. George Ball (American businessman) - Wikipedia

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   George Carl Ball Jr. is an American seedsman who has served as chairman of W. Atlee Burpee Company since 1991. After studying at Bard College and DePaul University, he joined Ball Seed in the late 1970s. He later worked as a marketing executive at Pan American Seed, [citation needed] where he was named president in 1984