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[[circled]]3851[[/circled]]
[[stamped]]AUG-4 1924[[/stamped]]

FOR PRIZE CONTEST.

What Burpee's Seeds Have Done for Me.

[[underlined]] Restored health,[[/underlined]] $33.00 [[underlined]]profit for our college endowment[[/underlined]], and a [[underlined]] summer outdoors[[/underlined]] - what more could [[underlined]]amateurs[[/underlined]] ask of $5.00 worth of seeds? As a remedy for sinus infection my physician advised gardening. In January I poured over Burpee's catalogue and gardening directions - fascinating occupation for an invalid. In February I sowed seeds in cigar boxes; every available window sill had its nursery. But with April came the real sport of setting out plants. As alumnae of the same college my friend and I were asked to earn money for the endowment fund. This we did through the vegetable garden 60 by 40 feet, which supplied our table up into winter. Our account of crops added up to $38.00 at retail prices. A 50 foot old fashioned border furnished the house with flowers, and we gave away literally armfuls. The dahlias grown from seed particularly captivated us, each variety as it blossomed bringing all the excit^[[insertion]]e[[/insertion]]ment of a new discovery. We also started hardy perennials from seed, and our delphiniums  bloomed the first season. We made laughable mistakes but that was half the fun; they only whetted our ambition to do better next year.

(Miss) Gertrude I.Folts,
Bryn Mawr, Penna.,
Box 56.

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