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= For Prize Contest=

To describe the merits of Burpee's Seeds in two hundred words seems like attempting the impossible. Apart from their merits , however, there is another aspect  to the question, for I have found through close observation over many years that gardening has given me a wonderful insight into the ways of nature.

There in my garden beautiful I can witness the advent of Spring, now ardent with hope- Summer, with its dissipations - Autumn, with its shadowy promises or Winter with its desolation.

It is a scene, which reminds me that such also is the fate to which I must come; & that  "the spirit must return to Him who gave it." It is a scene, which reminds me of that innocence in which life was begun; & that "whatsoever a man soweth, that shalt he also reap." It reminds me, also, that vast as the science of horticulture is, the same principles apply, with certain modifications, to