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Aug 13-1923

Prize Contest                      

Every issue of the seed catalog kindles new fires of ambition for more flowers and vegeatables but I have a love of flowers that I can truthfully say surmounts all other desires in my life and my patient wife with her vegeatable patch is relegated to a more remote spot. I can assure you that I have travelled the well-worn path of all poor amateurs.  Few are the seed catalogs that can not count me their victims. However I have found a keen delight when spring comes and can hear the first call of the cuckoo The spring beauty of the blossoming apple trees The tender fragrance of the hidden violets the heavy sweetness of the lilac and syringa, the slow unfolding of the earliest snowdrops or tall white lily buds, all tend to make happy and content with all the world