The W. Atlee Burpee Co., affectionately known as “Burpee seeds” to millions of American gardeners, is the nation’s largest home seed and plant company and was founded in Philadelphia in 1876, at the ...

Though it might not seem as if the companies selling Brach’s candy marshmallow Easter Hunt Eggs, Jell-O, and seeds for vegetables and plants have much in common, James “Jamie” Mattikow sees many ...

The seed trade catalogs document the history of the seed and agricultural business in the United States; they also provide a history of botany and plant research such as the introduction of plant ...

WARMINSTER, Pa. (AP) — A knot of giant sunflowers, a spread of fanciful impatiens in salmon, coral and orchid, and a wave of silver petunias are among the latest offerings from W. Atlee Burpee & Co., ...

This year’s gardening season has barely peaked, and we’re still worshipping homegrown tomatoes. Yet, it’s easy to get excited about next year’s new vegetables and flowers from the W. Atlee Burpee & Co ...

WARMINSTER, Pennsylvania -- If you've ever pulled a Burpee carrot out of the ground, munched on a salad of Burpee iceberg lettuce or sniffed a bouquet of Burpee zinnas, it's because those plants ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: April 5th, 1858, 157 years ago today ... the day Washington Atlee Burpee was born in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. His family moved to ...

I hadn't been back to Fordhook Farm, the ancestral home of the W. Atlee Burpee family, since the summer of 1992, when I fell in love with a zucchini called 'Roly Poly.' So I dropped by recently to ...