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[[stamped]] JUL 31 1924 [[/stamped]]

^[[E.L. Platt 1]]

For Prize Contest

52 Hinckley Place,
Brooklyn, N.Y.,
July 29, 1924

W. Atlee Burpee Co.,

Gentlemen:

Burpee's Seeds! What have they done for me? They have brought expectant winters, busy springs, joyous summers and fruitful autumns.

The long winter cannot be a winter of discontent when one can plan a garden. The wind may drive sleet against the window, but the seed catalogue blooms with promises of yellow primroses and prolific blue bantam peas.

Early in spring come days of testing to see if the earth is dry and warm enough to work. Then come trenching for sweet-peas, raking dead leaves off the tulip-beds and planting seeds of lettuce and radish. Neighbors call over the hedge, "You seem to think spring has come."

Children wander in to watch the lady digging in the dirt. They learn why the lives of earth-worms are spared and rush out again to spread