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Your Aly[[?]]sum and Blood Red (leaved) Beets for a border. We often mix our edibles with the flowers.

But the main point is the pleasure of raising plants from such seeds as you supply, and the right friendship's obtained thru gardening. As amateurs we much rely on your description of varieties, and now our few failures are mainly tracable to the weather and our inattention. There is always room for progress.

Yours Very Truly
Gilbert [[?]] Clothier

P.S. I realise that these lines are rather late but irrespective of your contest, I feel that your assistance in the past well merits our small effort.