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[[stamped]] AUG 14 1924 [[/stamped]] 
[[#4380]]
[[Ans 8/27/24]]

W. Atlee Burpee Co.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

FOR PRIZE CONTEST

WHAT BURPEE'S SEEDS HAVE DONE FOR ME.

My fourteen-by-forty-four foot garden has evolved in four years from weeds and ash-heap to a living bit of tapestry that passers-by stop to gaze upon and our neighbors seek to emulate.  It seems incredible that tiny seeds can be responsible for bringing into my life and, incidentally, my husband's interesting and worth-while activities.  Yet the truth is -- my return to health, the pleasure of sharing flowers with friends, keeping a poor ward in a nearby hospital brightened, the thrill of studying birds and wild-flowers in woods and fields, and, most priceless of all, the closer companionship which my husband and I enjoy because of mutual interests resulting from the opening of Nature's door -- for these riches I do homage to your seeds.  Our enthusiasm has culminated in the purchase of an acre of suburban land where we can realize our visions of masses of flowers now crowded out for lack of space, and ^[[have]] our own fresh vegetables.  And at one time all we knew of flowers was that dandelions ran riot in lawns and roses came from the florist!

Lorene Byrnes Burns (Mrs. Roy D.)
1125 Norton Avenue
Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

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