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[[#4485]]
Batavia NY Aug 11 1924            
W. Atlee. Burpee Co    [[ans 8/27/24]]      
Philadelphia PA

Dear Sir:
I am sending you pictures of the President Harding Sweet peas growing in my garden this year, I bought them of you last winter with other collections and mixtures and they have turned out wonderful I sowed them in a drill 5 inches deep, covering them about 1 inch deep, filling in later as they grew made my drills 18 inches apart-and 2-3 ft 6 in. setting brush every 8 inches 3 inches on the inside of the 18 inch rows weaving fine twigs and brush at the bottom to help them find their way to the finer brush on top when they were about-5 feet high I took pruning shear and cut

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