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[[stamped]] AUG 14 1924 [[/stamped]]
[[4361]]
[[Ans 8/26/24]]

"For Prize Contest"

Faribault Minn.
Aug 11, 1924

Burpee's Seed Cos
Philadelphia.

Dear Sirs:-

Burpees seeds and nature has done more for me than any Physician could do.

I, being a frail woman, in a valiant struggle for health was advised by the Doctor to devote all my time in the garden. Following the doctors orders I ordered seeds from Burpees and started my garden with the result the first summer my garden was a blaze of living color and it put new life and living color in me.

It must have been such a garden that inspired Emerson to say, "Beauty is its own for being"

It has been all pleasure for me to plant Burpee's seeds and then