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^[[4487]]
^[[Ans 8/27/24]]
[[stamped]] AUG 13 1924 [[/stamped]]

For Prize Contest {dash under each word)

W. Atlee Burpee Co.

Dear Sirs,

As I look back to the happy hours Mother and I spent studying your fascinating catalogue and planning our garden to be during the dreary weeks of late winter and early spring when the roads were nearly impassable and snow lay deep everywhere, I doubt if any large volume or set of books ever gave any one more pleasure or benefit than your seed annual gave us.

Always we must have sweet peas, the wonder of our neighbors, such beauties, on our more successful years.  How well I remember the year when I actually had to stand upon a chair to reach the upper flowers, fragrant beauties they were.  

As guardian of my own family another side presents itself.  Climatic conditions sometimes make it wiser to purchase part of our garden seeds farther north.

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last line could be: "further north"