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  2. List of seed packet companies - Wikipedia

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    Seed packets or packages include seeds for flowers, herbs, fruit, or vegetables and are typically sold to amateur gardeners. The seed packets generally include plant information and planting instructions on the label.

  3. Shaker Seed Company - Wikipedia

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    Before the development of the paper packets of seeds, the only way seeds were sold was in bulk in cloth sacks. The first seed envelope packets were made with plain brown paper with the seed variety name, where the seeds came from, and sometimes the grower's name. The first paper packets were pieces of paper cut into eight different sizes for ...

  4. Congressional seed distribution - Wikipedia

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    Congressional seed distribution was a United States program where members of the United States Congress directed the distribution of millions of packets of free seeds to farmers by the United States Department of Agriculture. The program of distributing seeds to farmers began in the mid-19th century under Henry Ellsworth, the commissioner of ...

  5. Ferry-Morse Seed Company - Wikipedia

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    The 1906 earthquake demolished the firm's facilities, but they quickly moved to temporary space in San Francisco, and the company bought out Cox Seed and Plant. Mergers and acquisitions. In the early 1900s, D.M. Ferry bought land in California to grow crops for seed. In 1921, they bought the commission packet business from Morse.

  6. R. H. Shumway - Wikipedia

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    Seed company. In 1870, he founded the R. H. Shumway seed company on his farm in Rockford, Illinois. By 1881 his company was expanding, so the company relocated to South First street in order to accommodate larger facilities. By his death in 1925, it was the largest in the world, shipping 200,000 catalogues per year. Death and legacy

  7. Seed bank - Wikipedia

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    A seed bank (also seed banks or seeds bank) stores seeds to preserve genetic diversity; hence it is a type of gene bank. [1] There are many reasons to store seeds. One is to preserve the genes that plant breeders need to increase yield, disease resistance, drought tolerance, nutritional quality, taste, etc. of crops.

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