RKBP-026

Lisbon March 27 - 1855

Friend Kennicott

I finished grafting for you a week since. and now wish to know when you want the grafts and seedlings sent. I have not grafted a general assortment as I suppose you would not expect it in so small a number, and as you have a large lot of seedlings for budding. I have substituted three varieties for some of those ordered of which I had no cions. viz - Rambo, for fall Wine. I find Rambo perfectly hardy root grafted and you know that it is a splendid nursery trees I have three years old grafts of it (never preened) nine feet high and almost as large as my wrist, at collar. Fall wine is a crooked grower and is best worked high.

Danvers Winter Sweet, (for Ladies Sweet) You will find this a fine nursery tree (if you dont know it now) and the books class the fruit as first rate. I have also sent White Bellflower. For my own planting I graft 1.000[underlined] White[underlined] to 100 Yellow[underlined] Bellflower. It is a much better nursery tree growing faster and requiring little or not pruning And for orchard[underlined] I would certainly plant in the same[underlined] proportion[underlined] - and as far as I have been able to learn this[underlined] is about[underlined] the proportion[underlined] in which the trees bear it. White[underlined] bears 10[underlined], where Yellow[underlined] bears one bushel. You know that the white bears much younger. Perhaps the Y. Bellflower bears better in the Southern part of the state than in the

central and northern. I have seen many trees, from twelve to twenty years in orchard but have not yet seen it bear a full[underlined] crop[underlined]. I do not propagate Esop's Spitz, at all. The trees as far as I have seen in orchard are "scurvy"[underlined] and poor bearers. I fear the Baldwin has been too hastily condemned. It is in bearing (root grafted) in this county and is said to promise well. Do you cultivate the Autumn Strawberry? I am setting about 1200 grafts of it. I think it promises to be "No[underlined]. one[underlined]" fall fruit and is a very fine nursery tree. I took cions two years since from Cryus Bryants Orchard. The varieties grafted for you are. C. R. [Lime?] 300. K. Codlin 200. [Fameuse?] 265. Rambo 375. Y. Bellflower 300. W. Bellflower 200. Baldwin 175 Vandevire 140. Danver's W. Sweet 240. W.W. Pearmain 350. N. Spy 560. Fulton 910. I hope they will suit you Do you know where I can sell a few thousand grafts at $10 per M. If so I will sell and send you the money. I fear sales will be small here[underlined] this spring. Rochester peddlers have sold lots of trees around me The people are grumbling[underlined] at "the Shave[underlined]" b[strikethrough] and I think will be wiser in future. "A burned child &c" - Please answer this scrawl[underlined] soon and believe me

Yours truly - in haste

[C?].B. Galusha