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[[stamped]] AUG -7 1924 [[/stamped]]

For Prize Contest
August 5, 1924

W. Atlee Burpee Co. 
Philadelphia, Penn.

Dear Sirs: - 

When I opened Burpee's Catalogue last spring and found that a prize was being offered for "What Burpee seeds have done for me", my first thought was to write a letter, but how could I write it in so few words!

Having lived from the products of these seeds for thirty-two years, seems to tell a story of life itself.

Ten years ago when it fell to me to be garden manager and grower myself, I picked