Gartons Agricultural Plant Breeders
Dr John Garton, of the firm of Garton Brothers of Newton-le-Willows in the United Kingdom was the Originator of Scientific Farm Plant Breeding. He is credited as the first scientist to show that the common grain crops and many other plants are self-fertilizing. He also invented the process of multiple cross-fertilization of crop plants.
In 1898 the business became known as Gartons Limited and, under the inspired commercial leadership of George Peddie Miln, was to become the British Empire's largest plant breeding and seed company.
A public company from the start, its shares were traded on the London Stock Exchange from 1947.
Read more about Gartons Agricultural Plant Breeders: History of The Business, The Garton System of Plant Breeding, Varieties Bred and Introduced
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