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[[stamped]] JUL 24 1925 [[/stamped]]

For [[underlined]] Prize Contest [[/underlined]]

M. Atlee Burpee Co.
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Sirs.

Sweet pea seed of your crop of 1922 which had withstood the heat of the Missouri summers and the freezing temperatures of the Missouri winters, was planted without special preparation of soil, in Spring of 1925.
Plants transplanted to row where an entire planting of new seed had been destroyed by moles, began blooming the last week in May.  Flowers of unusual size.  Many stems nine to ten inches in length and vine forty to forty six inches.  Photographs - a morning's picking - taken July 13, 1925, after many days of drought and high temperature.  Vine still yielding many blooms daily.

Very truly yours
Mrs. W.C. Curtis

Columbia Mo
July 22, 1925.