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[[stamped]] AUG 14 1924 [[/stamped]]
[[#4080]]
[[Ans 8/25/24]]

Florence Place
Eagleville 
Montg Co. Pa

For Prize Contest

What Burpees seeds have done for me.

W. Atlee Burpee Co.
Philadelphia, Pa

Dear Sir,-

A number of years ago the Burpee seed company established the custom of giving each year a certain number of seeds gratutiously to their patrons. When a child one of these packets were handed to me to be planted and cared for as my own. What these flowers were I do not remember but this gave me my first inspiration to grow flowers. Since then both flowers and vegetables have been grown with additional interest. 

Two years ago I entered a flower show exhibiting in two classes, one for the finest collection asters and the other, finest specimen of asters, winning the first prizes in each class. Last year I exhibited not only asters but snapdragons, and scabiosa, was awarded the second prizes for asters & snapdragons.

Vegetables likewise have been grown almost exclusive from Burpees seeds. A vegetable garden of less than one-fourth acre furnishes a family of six with vegetables both summer and winter with the exception of potatoes. Last year the surplus sold for $160. -