PASSINGS : J. W. Jung; Mail-Order Seed Firm Founder
J. W. Jung, 100, founder of one of the nation’s biggest mail-order seed companies. Jung Seed Co., founded in 1906, circulates as many as 3 million seed catalogues a year. Jung traced his interest in gardening and seeds to his boyhood, when his mother taught him to save seeds from the vegetable garden for planting. He soon was going from farm to farm selling extra seeds. In Randolph, Wis., on Friday.
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