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Di M.-2BERRY: .&:-€Ois DESCRIP GIVER CALALOCUIE 
Why? 
UR newspaper and magazine advertisements to 
O be published this spring will carry the an- 
nouncement of a $5,000 prize letter-writing 
contest. During the past seventy years we have given 
many reasons why people should have gardens. Now 
we areturning about and asking those who garden to 
tell the real reasons to us. It may be that the call of 
growing things is more easily heeded than described. 
. Perhaps the most compelling urge is not to be con- 
fined in words but as far as possible we wish to know 
why you get out every spring with a spade ora 
trowel. Is it for exercise, for food more delicious 
than can be obtained in any other way, for the sake 
of the health of the children, for the beauty and 
attractiveness of the home, for pin money, for 
economy or for a pleasure none the less real because 
you never need to think about it? Possibly there are 
no reasons for gardening that we have not already 
heard but what are the ones that will not be denied? 
Look for our advertisements or write us for the 
rules of the contest. Anybody can compete. One 
hundred and eighty three prizes. Spelling and 
grammar do not count. Separate prizes for young 
people. 
A little study of this Seed Annual may help to 
give you the answer. 
D. M. FERRY & CO. 
January 1, 1928 DETROIT, MICH. 
