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[[stamped]] AUG 18 1924 [[/stamped]]
[[#4554]]
[[Ans 8/27/24]] 

[[preprinted]]E. A. Sutherland, M. D., President and Medical Supt.
W. F. Rocke, Purchasing Agent

N. H. Druillard, Receiving Matron 
M. Bessie DeGraw, Sec'y-Treas. 

Nashville Agricultural Normal Institute
[[underlined]] Madison Rural Sanitarium [[/underlined]]
Madison, Tennessee
Near Nashville

Telegrams, Nashville, Tennesse
Telephone Walnut 1789 R[[/preprinted]]

August 12 & 13, 1894 
Burpee Company, Philadelphia

I thank you Gentlemen, for the privilege of entering your contest, and for the pleasure it has given me to write on a subject near my heart

The writing is in no sense fictionary, nor even a sincere expression of opinion, but a true and literal relation of my own practical experience, and attitude to the culture of flowers and vegetables for more than thirty five years, and often expressed sentiments regarding them. ^[[For]] Fourteen years much time and mental energy were spent on the country garden I shall describe to you, the other years in landscape gardens attached to city residences.
In some part the Contest story is borrowed thru memory from an unpublished manuscript of my own, written a year ago, entitled, "My Garden, This garden of half an acre area, adjoining the lawn of our country home, was my especial care and therefore more beloved for the work and energy given to it, bringin much enthusiasm and physical uplift. My frail constitution forbade any heavy work, our gardener