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4749 Masonville, Colo., Oct. 6, 1924. W. Atlee Burpee Co. Philadelphia, Pa Gentlemen: In regard to your New Self-Pruning Tomato I wish to report that the early part of the season was cold and in June we suffered from a hail storm that I believed for some time had entirely distroyed my tomato plants, but in time they came out of it and under those conditions the Self-Pruning tomato was the first to have ripe fruit out of four varieties that I had in my garden. This has been a rather unfair trail for them, having been set back as they were in the beginning, but even so I believe them to be unsurpassed for table use, preserving and general home use, and being so firm they should be a good market tomato also, although I did not have more than I wanted for my own use so did not try to sell any of them. They are a bright pinkish red color, perfectly smooth and solid and rather small globe-shaped just as you discribe them, and altogether the most nearly perfect home tomato it has ever been my good fortune to find. Wishing you success, I am Very truly yours Irma C. Smith