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[[stamp]] Aug 8 1924 [[/stamp]]
[[4042]]

August 5, 1924

For prize Contest
W Atlee Burpee

Your seed has proven wonderful this past season for me. We had very wet weather and now very dry. And yet I have picked four times of your Premium gem peas.

The matchless tomato seed I sowed about May 1st, then transplanted and now they are ready to ripen.

Every seed of the improved blood beet must have come up, for I had to thin and used for greens and had to thin them again. A friend planted some seed of another firm and had one beet and her neighbor planted some of still a different firm and had three beets. I told her where I bought my seed which no doubt will be the means