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L.M. Sherrill
Greenfield Centre,
New York.
R. D. #2

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Why I use Burpees Seeds.

Back in 1885, when I was a little shaver, and lived with my parents at Eaten, Mad. Co, New York, I remember my father always had one of the best gardens in town and sent to Burpees for his seed. After we moved to Delaware County, New York, on a farm, he still had good results from Burpees seeds.

When my mother died, the family became separated, and I located in New York City, and in 1910 moved my family out in the suberbs, to a place called Dumont N.J., every year since, when my work was so that I could handle a garden, even if only a small one, I have always purchased my seeds from the old store, Burpee Phila Pa.

One spring at Dumont, my neighbor told me that I could never grow anything in my back yard as it was too wet and heavy, but I went ahead with my plans. In a small hot bed three feet by six feet, I raised my own tomato, cabbage, and pepper plants, also some early lettuce which was later set out in open ground,

When my neighbor saw that I had Burpees seeds, he again tried to discourage me by saying that all seed houses put out old seed in small packages and that they would not grow. He always saved his own seed, and bought his plants from the store and had better results.

By alternating my cabbage and lettuce between the hills of corn, I made use of all my ground, and with the help of what manure I had from a few hens, everything made a good start, and kept right on growing. I never saw such cabbage, beets, and parsnips, as I grew that summer on that little plot of ground, and my garden was the talk of the people in the street.

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