January, 1911. 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
One Thousand 
Dollars 
(including $250.00 First Prize for 
a letter of not more than two 
hundred words) will be paid for 
the best explanations of 
“The Reasons Why” 
is the largest Mail- 
Order Seed Trade in 
the World 
The cash will be distributed as follows: First Prize, 
$250.00; Second Prize, $100.00; Third, Fourth and 
Fifth Prizes, $50.00 each; ten Sixth Prizes of $25.00 
each and ten Seventh Prizes of $10.00 each, followed 
by thirty prizes of $5.00 each for the next best let¬ 
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thousand dollars ($r,ooo.oo). 
£2TFor full particulars see page 173 of Burpee’s New 
Annual for 1911, — mailed free on application. 
44 The Leading 
American Seed Catalog ” 
“Better than Ever” for 1911! 
The Thirty-Fifth Anniversary edition of this popu¬ 
lar “Silent Salesman" tells the plain truth about the 
Best Seeds that can be Grown, — as proved at our 
famous Fordhooic Farms, — the largest and most com¬ 
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with covers lithographed in nine colors, it also shows, 
painted from nature, on the six colored plates, lead¬ 
ing specialties in unequaled Vegetables and most beau¬ 
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from photographs and carefully written descriptions 
it is A Safe Guide to success in the garden and 
should be consulted by every one who plants seeds, 
either for pleasure or profit. 
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House & Garden and write,—TODAY! 
W. Atlee Burpee & Co. 
Burpee Buildings, Philadelphia 
In celebration of our Thirty-Fifth Anniversary 
Year our Catalog presents Several New Features, — 
one of which is the following unusual offer, — Four of 
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oe we will mail one regular fifteen- 
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