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[[stamped]] AUG 13 1924 [[/stamped]]

For Prize Contest

Box 56, R. F. D. 3.
Sterling Illinois,
Aug. 11, 1924

W. Atlee Burpee Co.
Philadelphia.               

Dear Sirs: 

Several years ago after the death of my Mother, the planing and planting of the garden became one of my duties.

Burpee's seeds were a wonderful help to me.  The instructions on the packages told me just what I needed to know.

Seeing how interested I was in gardening my sister became interested also and it became a pleasure not just a duty to help.

The garden keeps the table supplied during the growing season, and enough canned and stored away to last through the winter for a family of five.

How interesting it is to watch the plants develop from the time they peep through the ground, untill they