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[[stamped]] AUG 15 1924 [[/stamped]]

For Prize Contest

New Haven Ind. R.#3
Aug. 12. 1924
Paul Zink

W. Atlee Burpee & Co.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Sirs,

With an allowance of only two hundred words, it is indeed hard to tell what Buprees seeds have done for me.

Therefore, we will not refer to any pecuniary results we may have had but will speak of things far more important.

In the first place they have helped us raise our five boys, during a period of false ideals, by helping us to instill in them as nearly as possible, a true American standard of living.

They have planted gardens and have learned that in proportion to labor expended, so is the reward. Thus they have learned that the lazy ones must do without many things which the workers can have and they are anxious to work for their rewards.

Also they have had to exercise  their judgement in planning their gardens , determining the size, distance between rows, etc. and the kind of vegetables and flowers to be planted.

They have also had to decide whether the money they have earned was to go for some pet project which they have had in view or to be saved for some further use.

Then we would not have our children like Wordsworth's great human clodhopper, to whom,
 
A primrose by the river's brim,
A yellow primrose was to him,
And it was nothing more