. Burpee's farm annual 1894. Nurseries (Horticulture) Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. * From THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. March 16, AT HEAD OF OFFICE. LOOKING DOWN THE MAIN OFFICE. A GLANCE INSIDE A GREAT SEED HOUSE. An Interesting Day Spent at W. Atlee Burpee & Co.'s Fifth Street Stores. AN ESTABLISHMENT KNOWN TO SEED BUYERS THE WORLD OVER. Sorting and Opening of the Largest Mail Received by Any Business Firm in the United States—How Seeds Are Packed and Sent to All Parts of the Globe— A Wonderful Exa
. Burpee's farm annual 1894. Nurseries (Horticulture) Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. * From THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER. March 16, AT HEAD OF OFFICE. LOOKING DOWN THE MAIN OFFICE. A GLANCE INSIDE A GREAT SEED HOUSE. An Interesting Day Spent at W. Atlee Burpee & Co.'s Fifth Street Stores. AN ESTABLISHMENT KNOWN TO SEED BUYERS THE WORLD OVER. Sorting and Opening of the Largest Mail Received by Any Business Firm in the United States—How Seeds Are Packed and Sent to All Parts of the Globe— A Wonderful Example of Perfect System and Careful Business Methods. EEDS have come to play a very impoitunt part iu the business interests of Phila- delphia. Ask a farmer iu nearly any portion of the United States what is the chief seed-distributing center of the country, and in nine cases out of ten he will unliesitatiugly reply, "; The lame of this city's seed warehouses has penetrated everywhere. When a farmer wants good seeds (and, of coui-se, all farmers do), seeds that will grow, that lie can depend upon to give him ade- quate return for his labor after they are iu the ground, he knows that Philadelphia is the place to get them. There are various firms. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original W. Atlee Burpee Company; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection. Philadelphia, P. A. : W. Atlee Burpee & Co.
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