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Johnny Appleseed (born John Chapman; September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845) was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced trees grown with apple seeds (as opposed to trees grown with grafting [1]) to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Ontario, as well as the northern counties of West Virginia.
Gurney's Seed and Nursery Co. is a mail-order seed and garden plant company based in Greendale, Indiana.Founded in 1866, Gurney's specializes in vegetable and flower seeds, gardening supplies and nursery stock, including trees, shrubs, perennials, fruit trees and berries, fertilizers and plant foods.
This is a list of the major seed packet companies.Seed packets or packages include seeds for flowers, herbs, fruit, or vegetables and are typically sold to amateur gardeners.
A street full of seed shops in Wuhan, China, a few blocks from Wuchang Railway Station. Seed companies produce and sell seeds for flowers, fruits and vegetables to commercial growers and amateur gardeners.
In 1926, farm journal editor and future U.S. Vice President Henry A. Wallace, along with a group of Des Moines, Iowa businessmen, [1] founded the Hi-Bred Corn Company. The group included Henry's brother James W. Wallace, Fred Lehmann, J. J. Newlin, Simon Casady Jr. and George Kurtzweil. [2]
An 1886 advertisement. Suttons Seeds were founded in the Berkshire town of Reading in 1806 [1] by John Sutton (1777–1863). Originally the company traded as corn merchants and were known as the 'House of Sutton'.
Fedco Seeds is a seed company based in Clinton, Maine and founded by C.R. Lawn in 1978. The company is a major supplier of vegetable seeds in the United States, [1] [2] [3] and specializes in varieties for northern growers and short growing seasons. [4]