The Burpee company was founded in 1876 and to this day is still a family owned and run business shipping more than 100 million seeds a year to customers. http://www.hoovers.com/company/W_Atlee_Burpee__Co/jrfxsi-1.html Burpee offers a wide variety in their catalogs including vegetable plants and seeds, berries, annual and perennial plants and seeds, herbs, flowering bulbs, seed-growing kits, and different gardening supplies.

Their website even offers gardening tips submitted from customers themselves. Burpee releases a catalog yearly, released in late December, which begins arriving at customer's doorsteps after Christmas. Burpee yearly releases new products based on new scientific breakthroughs in agriculture and breeding, such as their 2010 tie-dye gold and red hybrid tomato plants.

On the Burpee website are listed "Burpee Favorites", which are items which are favorites of their customers and are included in the catalogs also. Among them include: their Ultimate Growing System, 4th Of July Tomato, Free Plant Food offer, Onion Sets & Plants, Garlic, Seed Starting Formula, Growing Tomatoes Book, and the Sweet Seedless Tomato.

The Burpee catalog has been printed as long as the company has been in business. When it started items sold included garden seeds as well as farm supplies, tools, and even poultry and hogs. A new direction for the company was taken by David Burpee during World War I was the idea of War or victory gardens. In 1974, the company moved to its Warminster, Pennsylvania location and in 1979 George J. Ball, Inc acquired the company. By 1915 over a million catalogs were being mailed to customers. http://www.burpee.com/category/customer+service/about+burpee.do

Burpee ships more than 2 million catalogs a year and over 100 million seed packets a year to their customers.http://www.hoovers.com/company/W_Atlee_Burpee__Co/jrfxsi-1.html Burpee still maintains their mail-order catalog, and their website honors orders from customers all year around. Their product lines have grown and expanded since inception, and the company now offers new products yearly including new plant hybrids grown on the Burpee farms. By signing up on their website, you can also receive e-mail reminders and offers of new plants in stock and when to order.

Products such as plants and bulbs ordered through the catalog, phone orders or their web site are shipped in the Spring depending on the plant hardiness zone on the customer (ex: customer living in Delaware would have their tomato plants shipped between April 20 - 30 since they live in Zone 7). Seeds and other items ordered are shipped within days of the order being processed. Annual flowers and vegetables, Perennial Plants, Flower Bulbs, Fruits, Garlic, Onion Sets & Potatoes, sweet potato and onion plants shipping schedules are all listed. A full map for the 2010 Burpee Plant Shipping Schedule can be found on their website.http://www.burpee.com/contentarticle.do?itemID=46

Burpee personally guarantees all products offered in their catalogs. If customers are not happy with their purchase, the buyer can receive a replacement or offered a full refund within one year of purchase. All transactions on their website are guaranteed safe and the customer will pay nothing if any unauthorized charges are added to their credit cards due to shopping at their website.

Burpee can be contacted by their customer service line at 1-800-333-5808 Monday through Friday, 9am to 5 pm Eastern Time. Their contact email address is custserv@burpee.com. http://www.burpee.com/category/customer+service/burpee+guarantee.do