Spring is springing up new growth everywhere we look, so we're welcoming the return of gardening season with these "three luscious tomatoes", sourced from the 1924 issue of Burpee’s Farm Annual (also known as Burpee’s Annual, Burpee’s Annual Garden Book, Burpee’s Seeds, and Burpee Gardens), published by W. Atlee Burpee & Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia became an early center for American commercial horticulture as early as 1784, when David and Cuthbert Landreth in Philadelphia founded founded the D. Landreth Seed Company, America’s oldest seed company, which introduced the zinnia, the white potato, various tomatoes and Bloomsdale spinach to America.
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