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For Prize Contest.
Aug 15th 1925.

Atlee Burpee.

Sirs - I purchased from you $2.10ยข seeds.  "Every seed grew", lost only three.  At planting out time I had surplus stock for [[underlined]] "thirteen friends". [[/underlined]] Flowers went twenty & fifty miles away.  Picked first large boquets 23rd July decorated for a party.  Parlor decorations - red zinnias, flox verbennas, snap dragons & white stalks, dinning room - pink & white flox pink & mauve stalk, greatly admired.  The sweet Sullans are huge & are much admired.  The flowers are the finest I ever grew, the bloom are extra large.  The powder blue asters are 41 inches tall & are [[underlined]] "giants". [[/underlined]]  The asters are all better than I expected.  I have 5 bunches straw flowers for winter. [[strikethrough]] I was more than suited took my [[/strikethrough]] I have picked and given away seventeen boquets [[underlined]] once a Burpee customer always one. [[/underlined]]

Sincerely yours.

Helen E. Armstrong

20 Walter St
Toronto.

[[stamp]] AUG 18 1025 [[/stamp]]