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                              #4442

                 (For Prize Contest)
                                          Ans 8/27/24
                        Hanover, Pa., August 11, 1924

W. Atlee Burpee Co.
Phila. Pa.

Gentlemen:- Am writing you regarding excellent results from our "Burpee" garden this year.
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     Burpee's seeds grow and produce as I and my neighbors will vouch for,my garden has a reputation here.

      My garden produces several crops a season, first crop being peas.  Eight pounds of your Blue Bantam and one pound of American Wonder produced 11 bushels of peas.  Pods with 6 to 10 large peas, the best tasting and tenderest peas obtainable.  Sold surplus at $0.60 a peck when ordinary peas were selling at $0.30 and could not supply the demand.

Your other seeds have produced and are producing; had Hanson Lettuce heads 15 inches in diameter, Fordhook and White Evergreen corn 2 and 3 ears to the stalk, resemble field corn in size, but sweet and tender.  Burpee's Improved Bush Lima Beans, a good sized patch now in full blossom, always produce the best lima bean obtainable and bear until frost kills them.

Your Fordhook and Golden Self Blanching celery is always a success.

Could write pages of the merits and growing qualities of your seeds, which, with proper weather have always proven an entire success.  This is my third year for an entire "Burpee" garden.

Respectfully,
Mrs. J. E. Flickinger,

315 Centennial Ave.

Hanover, Pa.

            

Transcription Notes:
Substituted dollar format to express cents: $0.60 instead of "cents" sign which was not on my keyboard. Also, typing at greeting indicates typist first typed "Gentleman" and then overtyped the "a" for it to say "Gentlemen".