ADVISORY/Participate in Major Tomato Tasting & Experience Anti-Depression Garden at Burpee Media Day.News Editors/Lifestyle Editors/Assignment Desks ADVISORY...for Tuesday (Sept. 9) DOYLESTOWN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 4, 2003 Coverage of media day at W. Atlee Burpee's historic Bucks County Fordhook Farm is cordially invited, to witness and participate in the most extensive and visually exciting tomato tasting ever held and to personally experience the world's first anti-depression garden on Tuesday, September 9, 2003. Burpee
The burpee is a calisthenic exercise performed to increase strength and explosiveness. will unveil their "Hall of Fame Tomatoes" featuring all star favorites, some dating back more than 100 years, in a frontline combat that will pit hybrid vs. heirloom, with untested newcomers tasted alongside best selling varieties of yesteryear. Media will join gardening and food professionals to serve as judges to determine the best overall tomato based on taste, appearance and smell. (No spitting, please!) Media will have the opportunity to stroll through and preview the Burpee Happiness Garden, which will be offered to the home gardening public for the first time in 2004. This unique sun-filled perennial and shrub garden features unusual combinations and densities, softly pleasing colors and curvilinear curvilinear a line appearing as a curve; nonlinear. curvilinear regression see curvilinear regression. beds in harmonious composition. Nicknamed the Prozac Garden, the soothing collection has been designed to actually relieve depression. Media will be able to sample new vegetables slated for introduction in 2004, including Corn Sugar Pearl, Cucumber Yellow Submarine and Tomato BushSteak, which yields a bountiful harvest of full size tomatoes in the smallest of containers, making it perfect for city dwellers and suburbanites alike. Walk among Herondswood's new shade plantings and be dazzled by such new flowers as Dianthus Dianthus: see pink. Rose Magic, Zinnia zinnia, any species of the genus Zinnia of the family Asteraceae (aster family), native chiefly to Mexico, though some range as far north as Colorado and as far south as Guatemala. The common zinnia of gardens (Z. Swizzle swizzle - To convert external names, array indices, or references within a data structure into address pointers when the data structure is brought into main memory from external storage (also called "pointer swizzling"); this may be done for speed in chasing references or to Scarlet and Yellow, and Coreopsis coreopsis (kōrēŏp`sĭs), or tickseed, names for species of Coreopsis, a chiefly North American genus of the family Asteraceae (aster family). Creme Brulee. Also planned is a demonstration of Lawnbuster, an ecologically-sound way to turn lawn into fertile garden, a presentation of Burpee's New Organic Seed Line, and a display of Burpee's Rainy Day favorites, which fared extremely well during this rain drenched drench tr.v. drenched, drench·ing, drench·es 1. To wet through and through; soak. 2. To administer a large oral dose of liquid medicine to (an animal). 3. growing season.
DATE: Tuesday, September 9, 2003
TIME: 9 AM - 7 PM (Tomato Tasting will be held 11 AM - 1 PM.)
PLACE: Fordhook Farm
105 New Britain Road
Doylestown, PA
CONTACT: Alise Kreditor (Prior to 9/9: 516-482-4866;
afkkmc@aol.com
On 9/9: 516-770-1210 or 215-345-1766.)
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