The School of Agriculture, Yangzhou University in east China sent its new students special admission letters with seeds inside, thepaper.cn reported on August 2.

These seeds are specially used in school laboratories. Recipients were urged to plant the seeds and keep records of their growth, Wang Yifan, a worker with the Youth League Committee of the School of Agriculture, told thepaper.cn.

“We did this with the hope that new students can have some understanding of agriculture and its beauty,” Wang said.