Vegetable Seed Average Duration of Germaination Power The Feate of Gardening (1440) William Lucas (1677) John Bartram 1765 Stephen Garraway (1777) Mawe & Abercrombie (1787) J Mason (1793) Crombie & Cormack (1800) Thomas Gibbs & Co (1800). John Kernan (1849) Sutton & Sons (1852) Vilmorin (1867) Sutton & Sons (1879) E W King & Co (1898) John & Horace Wright (1908) The Allotment (1920) The Profitable Culture of Vegetables (1937) The ABC of Vegetable Gardening & The Vegetable Growers Handbook (1948)