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[[stamped]] AUG - 8 1924 [[/stamped]]

Aberdeen, Md.
Aug. 4, 1924

[[underlined]] FOR PRIZE CONTEST [[/underlined]]

W. Altee Burpee Co.,
Phildelphia, Pa.

Dear Sirs:

It is indeed a pleasure for me to speak of some of the many benefits which I have enjoyed from using Burpee's Seeds.  An experience based on twenty years of using your seeds in flower and vegetable gardens enables me to endorse them unreservedly.

Perhaps the greatest indirect benefit is the unfailing fulfillment of my confidence in the seeds - that they are all live seeds and that they are free from any extraneous seeds.  I have no concern as to their not germinating.

My gardens are a great source of joy to me - the best object of nature study at any command.  I have always used them to explain to my children's nature's great power to continue living things on earth and the significance of the germ of life - that indescribable something which enables living things to reproduce their kind.  Two small seeds of two different flowers or plants slightly different in physical and chemical characteristics will, in obedience to the source from which they come, produce flowers or fruit of vastly different sizes, colors and odors.  It is a wonderful privilege to see the child mind begin to understand these things and to open up almost as a flower.

The matter of the fragrance of flowers is a constant source of wonder to me and this and the development of flowers and fruit is an unfailing consolation and an aid in understanding a little of the Source of Life, and to appreciate something of Nature.

The material benefits of my gardens are, of course, an abundance of flowers and fruits for my home and table.

Very gratefully yours,
[[signed]] Mrs. E. S. Holland [[/signed]]