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^[[#4655]]
^[[Ans 8/28/24]]
^[[AUG 15 1924]]

For Prize Contest. 
Twenty four years ago I bought my first seeds from Burpee and I have since been a satisfied customer many time.
Burpee's seeds have done much for me in so many different ways that I hardly know where to begin.
They have helped me to beautify my home so that from early spring to late fall my garden "runs sweet riot", with poppies, balsams, gladioli, zinnias and other lovely flowers. 
They have enabled me to brighten other lives.  For I have given away thousands of cut flowers, plants, cuttings, seeds etc.
They have strengthened me physically. 
When I regained my health after years of invalidism I started a flower garden.  At first an hour's work exhausted me but I kept at it and this spring I worked in my garden as much as six  hours a day. 
But these benefits are secondary. 
When I lift my eyes from the weary every-day round to look through my kitchen windows, instead of hard bare ground, I see and sense the beauties of myriad blossoms and know that with my hands I have helped  to make such beauty I cannot help feeling uplifted and inspired to higher things. My prayer is that I may say "My soul is like a water garden."

Union Church, Miss. Aug, 12th, 1924.
Mrs. J. Lee Scott