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

"For Prize Contest"

Aug 5 1924
W. Atlee Burpee
Philadelphia Pa

Sirs - 

Your seeds this year meant to us the differense between success and failure, a good display of flowers and none at all.

This year we had a cold spring with continual rains which persisted until the soil was hammered hard and compact. Then it came hot and the whole garden baked hard.

We had our seeds ordered early and sown before the rains started. We had seed from four seed