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BURPEE SEED COMPANY 1977

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Channel: Historic Films Stock Footage Archive · 2013 · Education

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CU FLOWER BUSH, ZOOM OUT TO PICTURESQUE FORD HOOK
FARM, EXPERIMENTAL FARM OF THE BURPEE SEED
COMPANY, AND HOME OF DAVID BURPEE.

01:00:50  CU ELDERLY DAVID BURPEE, CIGAR IN HAND, SITS AT
TABLE ON PORCH, TELLS ABOUT HIS FATHER IN 1876 WHO PUT OUT SMALL MAIL ORDER CATALOG, INCREASED IT EVERY YEAR. BY THE TIME HE WAS THIRTY-FIVE HE HAD TO LARGEST SEED LIST IN THE WORLD, EVEN TODAY.

01:01:11  CU COLORFUL DRAWINGS ON BURPEE'S 1890 ANNUAL
CATALOG, WITH FACE OF YOUNG GIRL, SURROUNDED BY
FLOWERS. ANOTHER FOR 1888.

01:01:28  PHOTOS OF MEN WORKING AT FARM SORTING PACKING
SEEDS. WOMEN WORKERS PLACE ENVELOPES OF DIFFERENT
SPECIES IN PIGEON HOLE RACKS.

01:01:54  CU HANDS OF WOMAN PLACING SEEDLINGS IN SMALL POTS
ON WORK TABLE

01:02:26  WOMAN HAND POLLINATES CUCUMBER PLANT BUD TO MAKE
NEW PLANT VARIETY MAKING IT WILT RESISTANT. CU
ZOOM IN ON CUCUMBER HANGING FROM PLANT. ZOOM IN
ROBUST CAULIFLOWER IN FULL BLOOM, OTHER VARIETY
OF FOOD PLANTS DEVELOPED BY BURPEE.

01:03:30  TWO MALE WORKERS CHECK FIELD OF NEW FLOWERS
DEVELOPED AT FARM.

01:03:49  OLD MAN BURPEE PICKS MARIGOLD FLOWER OFF PLANT.CREDIT IS GIVEN TO BURPEE FOR MAKING MARIGOLD ONE OF MOST POPULAR FLOWERS IN WORLD. BURPEE IS NOW INTRODUCING THE FIRST WHITE MARIGOLD. MONTAGE VARIETY OF MARIGOLD PLANTS

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