Company Description:
Ball Horticultural Company is a privately held wholesale horticultural company that breeds, produces, and markets flower seeds, and vegetatively propagated floricultural crops and that brokers a full line of horticultural supplies. Operations and markets of the company, which is headquartered in West Chicago, Illinois, are international in scope. The company has a strong research and development effort in all its divisions and continually strives to breed and efficiently produce better varieties of seeds and plants. Plant pathology research and development in Ball FloraPlant, a division of Ball Horticultural Company include managing a "clean stock" program for vegetatively propagated crops, assisting in the breeding of disease-resistant varieties, and providing diagnostic support to production personnel and suppliers.
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