Word: fordhook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
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