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Harry and David Operations Corp., formerly "Bear Creek Corporation", is an American company that was founded in 1910, when Seattle hotelier Samuel Rosenberg purchased 240 acres (1 km²) of pear orchards in Medford, Oregon.[1] His sons, Harry and David, took the company over upon his death in 1914.[1] The company is best known for beginning the business of mail order direct marketing of fruit, especially through its "Fruit-of-the-Month Club". Their "Harry and David" brand specializes in high-end gift baskets and holiday gift towers. Harry and David added Jackson & Perkins, a mail-order rose marketer, to its brands in 1966. However, Jackson and Perkins was sold to an outside group of...