美国 Burgess 种子和植物公司（Burgess Seed and Plant Co.）创立于 1912 年，由 Margaret 与 Harry Burgess 夫妇在美国密歇根州 Galesburg 创办，后迁至伊利诺伊州 Bloomington 发展，是美国中西部历史最悠久的家庭园艺邮购品牌之一。一个多世纪以来，Burgess 一直以”低价格、高品质”为定位，向园艺爱好者提供从种子、球茎、宿根花卉到果树、灌木、攀援植物的完整目录体系，并在几代美国家庭中建立了”翻一翻 Burgess 目录就能找到想要植物”的品牌联想。
公司沿革与历史地位
Burgess 创立初期以邮购种子目录起家，二十世纪三四十年代凭借覆盖美国本土、加勒比海自治领土的物流网络成为全美最大的家庭园艺产品邮购商之一，其在 1941 年推出的整版彩色商品目录奠定了”目录—订单—邮寄”三位一体的零售范本。2000 年代之后，公司与 Gurney’s Seed & Nursery Co. 整合运营，并由 Gardens Alive! 集团（Scarlet Tanager Holdings）持有，原 eburgess.com 域名已统一跳转至 gurneys.com，所有原 Burgess 客户可通过 Gurney’s 平台继续购买、兑换原品牌兑换券并享受同等售后保障。
产品线与品类规模
现役目录整合在 Gurney’s 平台下，覆盖蔬菜种子与种苗、阳台与盆栽果蔬、多年生花卉与球茎（涵盖落新妇、萱草、玉簪、鸢尾、百合、牡丹、蜀葵、木槿、薰衣草、蕨类等数十个大类）、裸根果树与浆果灌木（蓝莓、黑莓、覆盆子、葡萄、矮化苹果与桃李）、月季与攀援藤本，以及草坪、肥料、植保与园艺工具用品；网站检索系统支持按颜色、株高、花期、抗寒区、抗鹿性、香味、光照条件、耐荫性等十多个属性交叉筛选，方便家庭园丁快速锁定适合本地气候与景观风格的品种。
邮购订购与配送服务
作为典型的美式邮购苗圃，Burgess / Gurney’s 提供纸本目录在线索取与电子目录两种入口，所有球茎、裸根苗、种子按各品种最佳种植期分批发货，覆盖美国本土五十州以及波多黎各、美属维京群岛等海外领土。订单支持信用卡在线支付与货到付款，全商品承诺一年无风险质量保证——若苗本、球茎、种子、工具或其他商品在收货后一年内出现问题，可免费替换或全额抵用券退款；Gurney’s 团队统一接管客户服务与产品咨询，并负责原 Burgess 替换证书（replacement certificate）的兑换与园艺建议。
安全种子承诺与品质保证
Burgess / Gurney’s 公开承诺”Gurney’s Safe-Seed Pledge”：不在知情情况下购买、销售或交易任何转基因（GMO）种子与种苗，所有目录品种均经严格隔离与可追溯性审查。同时，公司与世界多所农业大学、独立育种机构保持长期合作，筛选出兼具抗病性、产量与风味的家庭园艺专用品种，并以”Only From Gurney’s”独占标志标识只能在自有目录买到的独家杂交系列，确保园艺爱好者既能放心选购非转基因种子，又能持续获得育种创新带来的产量与品质提升。
Burgess Seed and Plant Co. was founded in 1912 by Margaret and Harry Burgess in Galesburg, Michigan, and later relocated to Bloomington, Illinois. Over more than a century it has become one of the longest-running mail-order home gardening brands in the American Midwest, building a household reputation as a single-source catalog for seeds, bulbs, perennials, fruit trees, shrubs, vines and gardening supplies. After integrating with Gurney’s Seed & Nursery Co. and joining the Gardens Alive! family of brands under Scarlet Tanager Holdings, the former eburgess.com storefront now redirects to gurneys.com, where long-time customers can continue to place orders, redeem replacement certificates, and enjoy the same no-risk guarantee.
Company History and Heritage
Burgess began as a small mail-order seed house in the early twentieth century, and by the 1930s-1940s had grown into one of the largest home gardening mailers in the United States, shipping seeds, bulbs and nursery stock to households in all fifty states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Its 1941 full-color catalog became a template for the “browse-the-catalog, mail-the-stamp, wait-for-the-box” retail model that defined American gardening for a generation. Following decades of family-led growth, the brand was folded into Gurney’s operations, and is now part of the Scarlet Tanager Holdings portfolio alongside Gurney’s, Breck’s Bulbs and Henry Field’s, with all customer-service, fulfillment and catalog functions unified under the Gurney’s platform.
Product Range and Catalog Scale
Through the Gurney’s platform, the Burgess catalog offers a comprehensive mix of vegetable seeds and starter plants, container fruit and berry varieties, an extensive perennial and bulb lineup (astilbe, daylily, hosta, iris, lily, peony, hollyhock, hibiscus, lavender, ferns and more), bare-root fruit trees and small fruits (blueberry, blackberry, raspberry, grape, dwarf apple, peach, plum), roses and climbing vines, as well as lawn seed, fertilizers, pest control products and garden tools. An advanced on-site search lets gardeners filter by flower color, mature height, bloom time, hardiness zone, deer resistance, fragrance, sun exposure and shade tolerance, making it easy to match varieties to local climate and landscape goals.
Mail-Order Service and Shipping
As a classic American mail-order nursery, Burgess / Gurney’s accepts orders through a free print catalog (requestable online) and a full digital storefront, with bulbs, bare-root plants and seeds shipped in season so each variety arrives at the right planting window for its region. The retailer ships to the entire continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, accepts major credit cards and offers a one-year no-risk guarantee covering every tree, plant, bulb, seed packet and piece of merchandise; if anything fails to satisfy, the company will replace it or issue a merchandise credit for the full purchase price. Customer support is centralized under the Gurney’s team, which handles product questions, replacement certificates and gardening advice.
Safe-Seed Pledge and Quality Guarantees
Burgess / Gurney’s stands behind the formal Gurney’s Safe-Seed Pledge, publicly committing not to knowingly buy, sell or trade any genetically engineered (GMO) seeds or plants, and applying strict isolation and traceability standards across its catalog. The company maintains long-term partnerships with leading universities, independent breeders and developers around the world to identify home-garden varieties that combine flavor, disease resistance, yield and ease of growing, and flags exclusive hybrid lines with the “Only From Gurney’s” emblem. Gardeners who once relied on the Burgess catalog for trustworthy, non-GMO seeds can now find the same promise, expanded variety selection, and ongoing breeding innovation inside a single integrated platform.
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