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Experiments are performed on Burpee's 500-acre Fordhook Farms, which surround the 250-year-old family home in Doylestown, Pa., where he lives with his wife and two children, or on the Floradale Farms in Santa Barbara County, Calif. His first venture into flower breeding was unsuccessful. His father, W. Atlee Burpee, the company founder, offered him $1,000 to develop a yellow sweet...
David Burpee started to learn the business when he was ten by picking sage seeds on the Fordhook Farms for 5? an hour. He attended Culver Military Academy, spent summers traveling in Europe with his father to buy new flower seeds, or working at the Floradale Farms as a roguer, i.e., one who picks out rogues, or imperfect plants. After a year at Cornell, David. 22, took over the company when his father died in 1915. He has increased business 14 times to a gross...
...next year, no better, he sailed for Lisbon. He died there three months later, yet to the last, he kept his spirit calm and cheerful and never lost what Thackeray called his ''manly relish of life." His last letter home bears witness: "I must have from Fordhook likewise four hams, a very fine hog fatted as soon as may be and being cut into flitches sent me, likewise a young hog made into pork and salted and pickled in a tub. A vast large Cheshire cheese, and one of Stilton, it to be had good and mild...
...home by his father's illness. During the War he set up sample gardens, encouraged people to grow their own food. The War stopped shipments of bulbs, so he grew fine Dutch bulbs in the U. S. Carefully and in person he oversees the operation of the Burpee farms, Fordhook Farms (named for the ancestral Burpee estate in England) at Doylestown, Pa., and Floradale Farm in Santa Barbara County, Calif. In person, too, he follows many of the 20,000 experiments made yearly by the Burpee organization. He advocates Federal patents for the protection of flower experimenters. He lives...
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