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^[[#4555]] ^[[Ans 8/27/24]] [[stamped]]AUG 18 1924[[/stamped]] "For Prize Contest" [[preprinted]] [[image: a shield logo featuring a large letter S]] TWO HUNDRED SPRUCE AVENUE ALTOONA, PENNA. [[/preprinted]] Fresh vegetables brought me better health, Cultivating these greens increased my wealth, Made my home a nice place to see Yes Burpee's seeds did all this for me. In early spring under double glass I started plants that grew first-class, Fully confident when I began to sow Because Burpee's seeds always grow. Dwarf Giant tomatoes are the kind we like best Because they are almost acidless. "Only these," says the doctor, can my wife eat Because others bring her rheumatic grief. Of Burpee's lettuce, we use three kinds And all make salads unusually fine. Cauliflower, cabbage, bean and beet The finest any man can eat. Then Fordhook celery so fine and crisp, There's nothing to equal it on the list. Peppers and spinach tender and fine We wish we could grow them all the tie. Beautiful asters, snapdragons and others that bloom We want them always, but frost comes too soon. A terrace green, and steep and broad That's grown from Burpee's special Terrace Sod. There's a grass plot that holds the community lead A lawn that was grown from Fordhook finest seed. But my, all this effort, I think it absurb To do Burpee's justice with two hundred words. Charles F. Skelly 200 Spruce Avenue Altoona, Pa.