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[[stamped]]AUG 18 1924[[/stamped]]

"For Prize Contest"

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TWO HUNDRED SPRUCE AVENUE
ALTOONA, PENNA.
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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.